 | Israel Joseph Benjamin - Africa, North - 1859 - 362 pages
...customs from birth to death, I conclude with the words of Salomon, who says in Ecclesiastes c. VII, 1.2: ,,A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of... | |
 | Bible - 1860 - 400 pages
...me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. Monday — Septuagesima. ECCLESIASTES VII. 1 10. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house... | |
 | 1860 - 1346 pages
...Sundry observations and admonition*. 11 A commcndaîion of tcisdotn. 23 The difficulty in obtaining it. not be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | Edmund Baker - 1862 - 264 pages
...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. TO BE, OR NOT TO BE? CHAPTER I. WISDOM HATH WEITTEN IT. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.— ECCLES. vii. 1. " To BE, or not to be ? that is the question."... | |
 | 1862 - 760 pages
...vision—" houses of God, and gates of heaven." MEMOIR OF THE REV. JAMES ANDERSON, LATE OP CARLUKE. "-A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Such was the estimate of Solomon, and such must be the estimate... | |
 | Christian literature for children - 982 pages
...chiefly raised by a rate on householders. (To be continued.} A PEACEFUL END. THE wise man has truly said, "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth." And the devout Psalmist has also observed, " Mark the perfect... | |
 | Charles Vyse - 1864 - 176 pages
...have seen under the sun, and it is common among men. LESSON LXXI. A good name is better than choice ointment; and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. TABLE IV. - Words of Three Syllables, accented on the first. AB-DI-CATE ab-ro-gate' ab-so-lute... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Bible - 1865 - 538 pages
...that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Kc. 7: 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. [S*e 72'J, 730.] RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. €17. General resurrection... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - 168 pages
...— Ps. xxxvii. 37. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. — Ps. cxvi. 15. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. — Eccles. vii. 1. Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall... | |
 | John Hayden (independent minister.) - 1865 - 136 pages
...the words of Solomon be more justly applied to any man than to him who thus fell asleep in Jesus: — "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. "J And if the Thracians commended those who wept when men were born,... | |
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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. 
