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. Sermons - Page viiby Hugh Blair - 1808Full view - About this book
| Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...againft the othet. c It is better to go into the Houfe of Mourning, than to go to the Houfe of Feafting ; for that is the end of all Men, and the living will lay it to his Heart. d Oh that Men were wife, that they underflood this, that they would confider their... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1721 - 542 pages
...of theWife-Manj // « better to go to the Hottfe of Mourning^ than-to that of Feafting^ Ecclef. vii. for that is the end of all Men, and the living will lay it to his Heart. Never look upon a deceafed Body ftretch'd upon a Bed, or upon a dead Corpfe in... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1732 - 536 pages
...of the Wife Man ; // is better to go to the Houfe of Mourning, than to that of Feafting, Eccl. vii. for that is the end of all Men, and the living will lay it to his Heart. Never look upon a deceafed Body ftretched upon a Bed, or upon a dead Corpfe in... | |
| John Abernethy - 1748 - 414 pages
...vii. z, 3, 4. It is better to go to the houfe of 'mourning , iff an to go to the houfe of fearing, 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 fadnefs of the countenance the heart... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1760 - 226 pages
...than to the houfe of feajling. TH ATI deny — but let us hear the wife man's reafoning upon it — for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart : /orr-ttw is better than laughter — for a crack'dbrain'd order of Carthufian... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1764 - 200 pages
...Mourning, than to go to the Houfe of Feafting ; for that is the End of all Men l and the Living will lay it to his Heart. Sorrow is better than Laughter, for by the Sadnefs of the Countenance the Heart is made better (y).' Let Patience have its perfect Work (z).'... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1768 - 360 pages
...vii. 2. 3. " It is better to go to " the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfe " of feafting : 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 fadnefs of the " countenance the... | |
| Nathaniel Spinckes - 1775 - 468 pages
...(d) It is better, fays the preacher, to go to the boufe of mourning, than to the boufe of Jeafting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living -will lay it to heart. What better motive can there be to a true repentance for all our fins, and a ferious... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 480 pages
...mourning than to the houfe of feafting. I deny — but let us hear the wife man's reafoning upon it — . for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart : forrow is hetter than laughter — for a crack'd. brain'd order of Carthufian... | |
| Thomas Francklin - 1787 - 404 pages
...from them, tha.t \. . , . It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than to the houfe offeqfting -} for that is the end of all men, and the living 'will lay it /<? heart* *' Sorrow, fays he, is better than laughter, for by the fadnefs of the countenance... | |
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