 | John Wilkins - 1722 - 420 страници
...pubilickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Ecclef.jt where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of ones death than the day of ones birth. When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
 | John Wilkins (bp. of Chester.) - 1734 - 422 страници
...publickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Rcclef.j. r, where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth.When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
 | James Foster - 1743 - 416 страници
...Solomon's aflertion in the text has a great deal of weaknefs, perverfenefs, and guilt in it, viz. That the day of Death is better than the day of ones Birth. Let us proceed, SECONDLY, To confider it in another light, as the language of a Sceptic, inclined to... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1774 - 270 страници
...fleered and governed. In the firft verfe of this chapter (the verfe before the text) he tells us, that " a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. A good name is "be to- than precious ointment ;" . e. rich... | |
 | 1788 - 598 страници
...he fpendeth as a fhadow ? for who can tell a man what fhalll)^ after him under the fun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfeof... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 страници
...accounts it is, I doubt not, that the day of death is preferable before the day of one's birth : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," Eccles. vii. 1. On tlie same accounts, I do not question, Paul did prefer... | |
 | Edward Barry - 1806 - 208 страници
...joy: .and the writer of .. .v » A fe Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes has not scrupled to assert, that " the day of death is better than the day of ones birth" * * * If the heathen Socrates, in the face of his Judges, before he was condemned to drink the fatal... | |
 | 1807 - 570 страници
...vanity, are a good name, 2 mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. '13 The difficulty of getting aisdom. A Good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 ^f -ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 страници
...vanity, are a good name, ^mortification, 7/iaticnce, llwudom. 23 The difficulty qf getting wisdom. Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, than the day of one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he house... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 страници
...subjoins in the close of the chapter, namely, the bitterness of an insnaring woman, ver. 25 — 29. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Or, " A name is good before good ointment." A name, for a good name ;... | |
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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. 
