 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...Ps. cxxvi. 5, 6. 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...heart. Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. — Eccles. vii. 2, 3. By this shall the iniquity... | |
 | 1824 - 400 pages
...the preacher are true, " it is better to goto the house of mourning than to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart." Ilt-ME. David Hume observed, that all the devout persons he had ever met with were melancholy. On this... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pages
...the wise man, "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," Eccles. ch. vii. 2. Never look upon a sick person breathing his last, or upon a dead corpse in its... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 426 pages
...what doth it?" " 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...heart. Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning;... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...Wisdom is a defence' — ' It is better to go to the House of Mourning, than to the House of Feasting : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart.' There is not a better lesson. It points to the end of man. If any thing will' set him on thinking,... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: o 0 o 0 3 Sorrow is better than laughter : for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 546 pages
...those who are deceased, and to such as they have left behind them. I. With respect to himself. Death is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart *. It is because we do not lay it to our hearts, that we most of us go on just as if we imagined there... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 660 pages
...and luxury madness. " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart*." David saith of the wicked," Let me not eat of their dainties ;" but, " let the righteous smite... | |
 | 1825 - 664 pages
...• ECCLES.' vii. 2. " It is better to go into the house of mourning than into the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart." It has been said that the best of all sermons is a funeral itself; and it is so, because sight... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...one's birth. 2 f 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. A. c. 060 4 The heart of the wise w in the house of mourning ; but to075' the heart of fools is in... | |
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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. 
