 | 1831 - 476 страници
...parting our unfeigned admiration, with the following precautionary recommendation of the wise man: "Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this." The first English Steam-Boat. WITH A WOOD ENGRAVING.... | |
 | 1831 - 930 страници
...Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not tliou, r thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 11 II Wisdom is good with an inheritnce : and by... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 страници
...made of the methods pursued, and of the good done. DCCCXXXIV. CONTENTMENT RECOMMENDED. Eccl. vii. 10. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. IN the writings of Solomon we find many maxims, which,... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 страници
...political gloom has been relieved by more than gleams of religious glory. Let us not ask with some, " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ?" The fact itself is, at least as to spiritual things, certainly inadmissible. Conceding that eighty... | |
 | 1832 - 896 страници
...political gloom has been relieved by more than gleams of religious glory. Let us not ask with some, ' What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? ' The fact itself is, at least as to spiritual things, certainly inadmissible. Conceding that eighty... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1832 - 576 страници
...appealed. VI. Wide was the observation and great the experience of him who delivered this precept: — " Say not " thou, What is the cause, that the former days were • Vol. iii. Praef. p. iv.; and p. 432—*37. f The " C'odrx Hoinanus." J Prtcf. p. iii. " better... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 страници
...than them both." " Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger restcth in the bosom of fools. Say not thou " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning them." "Take no heed unto all words that are spoken ;... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 страници
...proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. ^f11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1833 - 402 страници
...Book of Ecclesiastes which appears directed against a common, though, perhaps, unsuspected error. " Say not thou what is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." We believe that there exists a disposition in... | |
 | Henry Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 страници
...body and present with the Lord." DISCOURSE XXIII. TIMES IMPROVE AS THEY ADVANCE. ECCLESIASTES vii. 10: SAY NOT THOU, WHAT IS THE CAUSE THAT THE FORMER DAYS WERE BETTER THAN THESE? FOR THOU DOST NOT INQUIRE WISELY CONCERNING THIS. THERE is a prevalent disposition amongst mankind... | |
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Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 
