 | Robert Anderson - 1828 - 508 pages
...decay in the human frame, from the commencement of its infirmities to the period of its dissolution, "or ever the silver cord be loosed or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."* (a) * Eccles. xii. 7. B Assuming that man is compounded of an organized body and an immaterial soul,... | |
 | Edward Berens - 1828 - 194 pages
...desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : ' 6. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : The melancholy view which is taken by the book of Ecclesiastes of human life ' 7. T, ken shall the... | |
 | 1832 - 522 pages
...; and that all and each may cling together for the advancement of the happiness of all and each. ' Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern' — before all our social relations are deranged by the violence of lawless men — cultivate tranquillity.... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...and the almond-tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall feil : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return untoGod who gave it Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home ; and the mourners...the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 pages
...; and that all and each may cling together for the advancement of the happiness of all and each. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern" — before all our social relations are deranged by the violence of lawless men — cultivate tranquillity.... | |
 | 1832 - 678 pages
...the several considerations which are designed to give effect to the admonition already delivered. " Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern : then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall... | |
 | 1832 - 446 pages
...and desiie shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the strei ts : "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." ALBUM. lisb factory at Lisbon, without a stone to mark the spot ; Savage died in prison at Bristol,... | |
 | 1832 - 504 pages
...; and that all and each may cling together for the advancement of the happiness of nil end each. ' Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern' — before all our social relations are deranged by tlxi violence of lawless men — cultivate tranquillity.... | |
 | 1833 - 720 pages
...as a symbol of death ; there seems to be an allusion to some such custom in Ecclesiastes, ch. xii. " Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners...at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it wax," Sfc. It seems probable that the Preacher would illustrate his subject by reference... | |
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... also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the... 
