 | Thomas Pelham Dale - 1873 - 156 pages
...of his), and he makes them as a shadow (the LXX. render iv tricif, but this may be ad CHAPTER VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 f It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | Francis Foster Barham - 1873 - 568 pages
...Lest their love should become hatred, and be destroyed by envy ; ATJTHOBISED VERSION. Chapter 7. 1 A good name is better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | 1874 - 618 pages
...life which he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? 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... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1874 - 564 pages
...driver, whose name is Love. This it is to be under the perfect law of love. SEPTEMBER 15 : EVENING. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. — Eccles. vii., 1. DYING is like the folding of the flower. It... | |
 | Alfred Edersheim - 1876 - 378 pages
...and who has departed from this world with a good name. And of him, says Solomon (Eccles. vii. 1.) : 'A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.' " It was customary in the mouth of Rabbi Meir : " Learn with all... | |
 | John James Babson - 1876 - 302 pages
...he served with ildellty, thai 1 trust ye 7 chap. Kccles. 1st v., may be applied to his character." (A good name Is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Kccles. VII: 1.) 1 may also add that four of Hie children of (his... | |
 | 1876 - 392 pages
...life which he spendeth as a shadow? For who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? 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... | |
 | Society of friends - 1876 - 224 pages
...Scriptures. William Ecroyd had only read a few verses from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, beginning " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," when the youngest son marked an alarming change in his mother's... | |
 | University magazine - 1876 - 828 pages
...thoughts dwelt these delightful word?, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
 | 1876 - 892 pages
...thoughts dwelt these delightful words, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
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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. 
