 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.  Bible Poetry - Page 731828 - 8 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1808 - 500 pages
...mourning, and consider the widow and the fatherless. " * It is better," saith (he preacher, " 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," he continues, " is better... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together. Eoclesiastes, 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... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...trouble »nd the commencement of his felicity, and seals up his good character. Z [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 ; the contemplation of death... | |
 | William Godwin - 1805 - 336 pages
...serenity. He was a wiser man" than they, who said, " It is good to dwell in the house of mourning; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better." Certainly I found a salutary and purifying effect, in talking to the spirit of my father when I was... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pages
...This is the House of Mirth." Then he remembered the words of the wise man, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting :"1 and again, " The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...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 of feasting : for that in the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 448 pages
...the BENEFITS to be derived from the HOUSE of MOURNING. EcCLESIASTESj vii. 2, 3, 4. 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 ixill lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 pages
...house of mourning, saith Solomon, than to go to the house of feasting. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for, by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better ; Eccl. vfi. 2, 3. If Job's children do but meet at a kind banquet, their father is fain to expiate their feast... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 446 pages
...that is the end of all men, and the living will Jay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning ; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...is the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart 3 Sorrow is better than laughter : bike his blood, and sprinkle it round aliout upon the altar. 1 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning ; but the heart of fools it in the house of mirth.... | |
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