 | Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher - 1859 - 490 pages
...righteous, and let my last end be like his !" Not that which the preacher commends in the words, " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth." Nor that of which Paul writes, " 0 death, where is thy sting ?" The death to which Jesus was condemned,... | |
 | Richard Means Nott - 1860 - 404 pages
...how difficult then, for us to feel that our dear brother should be taken away from us, as who can say that the day of death is better than the day of one's birth ? Our brother lived briefly, and he lived well, and now his work is done. Not two years since, I, with... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1860 - 504 pages
...transferuntur." The proposition which is here of primary importance is formed by the words : " and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." By the day of death we are to understand the day when one dies: this explains the suff. The day of... | |
 | Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg - 1860 - 510 pages
...transferuntur." The proposition which is here of primary importance is formed by the words : " and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." By the day of death we are to understand the day when one dies : this explains the suff. The day of... | |
 | John Sargent - 1862 - 502 pages
...should conduct him on his way, Mr. Martyn resumed his ministerial functions at Cambridge with ardour, but with a heavy heart. The affairs of his family,...the object for which he was created, he never failed in making a particular commemoration of the anniversary of his birth. " Twenty- three years have elapsed,"... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 456 pages
...never mention made of the date of birth; which, with us, is hardly ever omitted. (It is said somewhere, that "the day of death " is better " than the day of one's birth." ") On the other hand, they constantly record the day of burial, which we never do. They hardly ever... | |
 | John William Burgon - 1862 - 478 pages
...mention made of the date of birth ; which, with us, is hardly ever omitted. (It is said somewhere, that " the day of death " is better " than the day of one's birth." ") On the other hand, they constantly record the day of burial, which we never do. They hardly ever... | |
 | Thomas Street Millington - 1863 - 726 pages
...desired, Was happier far than he who worlds acquired."—Jtv. Sat. xv. v. 311' ECCLESIASTES VII. 1. The day of death is better than the day of one's birth. " The Thracians' custom I applaud, for they Bewail the infant on its natal day; But joy, when death... | |
 | Richard Whitmore Norman - 1864 - 378 pages
...him, the wisest of men in intuition and learning, wealthy too, and prosperous, who yet could say, " The day of death is better than the day of one's birth ;" that " It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting ;" that "... | |
 | Joseph Butterworth Owen - 1865 - 166 pages
...from the intolerable inflictions of their tormentor. The Eoyal Preacher suggested conditions on which "the day of death is better than the day of one's birth." The thought has a miserable verification in the home of the inebriate. Instead of the poor "woman in... | |
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A good name is more fragrant than rich perfume, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. 
