| William Godwin - Human beings - 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 - Human beings - 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... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Antislavery movements - 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... | |
| English poetry - 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... | |
| James Yonge - Sermons, English - 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.... | |
| Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...for fear of those things that are coming on the earth, for the powers of heaven shall be shaken." " Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive " — for they are taken away from the evil to come. The Beloved One hath been visiting His garden... | |
| John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1834 - 276 pages
...they 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 who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
| W. S. Matthews, Thomas Rawson Taylor - 1836 - 406 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."— ECCIES. iv. 1, 2. THERE was a happy uegro home — a happier could not be, The bright abode of health... | |
| John Dayman - 1837 - 182 pages
...no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3. Yea, better is he than both they which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
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