 | Mary Martha Sherwood - Children - 1823 - 258 pages
...would have them to visit the grave of Peace: for it is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. (Eccles. vii. 2.) So Mr.^Orthodox and Mrs. Bountiful led the way, and the children followed. Now, when... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...mortality as affecting to the living. He says, " It is better to go to the house ot mourning than to go to the house of feasting : for that is the end of...all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart." Death has always been the greatest source of sorrow to all the inhabitants of this world. Many who... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...8. Are sorrow and sympathy truly beneficial? It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better. (7... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, &c. — Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting,...all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. —... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, &c. — Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6. It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting,...all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. —... | |
 | Theology - 1824 - 400 pages
...world cannot give. This convinced me that the words of the preacher are true, " it is better to goto the house of mourning than to the house of feasting;...all men, and the living will lay it to his heart." Ilt-ME. David Hume observed, that all the devout persons he had ever met with were melancholy. On this... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...carefully practise the advice of the wise man, "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than " to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all " men, and the living will lay it to his heart," Eccles. ch. vii. 2. Never look upon a sick person breathing his last, or upon a dead corpse in its... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...solitude And silent contemplation, meditate * (2) It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the liV' ing will lay it to his heart, y (3) Sorrow is better than laugh. te'r ; for b"y the sadness of... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 436 pages
...Man says, at the 1 2th verse of this chapter, that ' Wisdom is a defence' — ' It is better to go to the House of Mourning, than to the House of Feasting...all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.' There is not a better lesson. It points to the end of man. If any thing will' set him on thinking,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 660 pages
...sight of a skull or a grave, should make you think gluttony and luxury madness. " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting...the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart*." David saith of the wicked," Let me not eat of their dainties ;" but, " let the righteous smite... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
