 | Walter Balfour - 1828 - 374 pages
...and on the side of their oppressors there was power : but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praisexl the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | Walter Balfour - 1829 - 442 pages
...had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1830 - 334 pages
...result—splendid disquietude ?— They are so much labour for the mouth, the ear, the eye, the moment. " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yet better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...they had no I have seen the travail, which hath fnven to the sons of men exercised in it. comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than He h-dth made every thing tiful in his time: also he hatl tic world in their heart, so tha lan can... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 614 pages
...their envy are perished ; neither have they any more a reward." Add to this ; " Wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive : yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been." There can therefore be no just exception... | |
 | William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...and their envy are perished; neither have they any more a reward." Add to this ; " Wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive: yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been." There can therefore be no just exception... | |
 | 1832 - 264 pages
...the dreams of bliss that are, Not to be born is best by far ; i (') Compare Ecclesiastes iv. 2,3. — "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1832 - 96 pages
...had no comforter : and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive!" That is, he considered death to be a privilege, compared with such a life of unpitied oppression, and... | |
 | James Yonge - 1832 - 594 pages
...and the weary are at rest." Hear how the wise Preacher expresses the very same miserable thoughts: "I praised th.e dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Yea better is he than both they, which doth not hear, which hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...both they is he which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. ^f4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.... | |
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So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised... 
