 | William SHEPHERD (of Ilfracombe.) - 1837 - 132 pages
...wrought under the sun is grievous unto me : for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Eccl. ii. 17. " Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2. His ideas of the Almighty now alarmed him; his life was a burden, and nothing but the... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 396 pages
...was power ; but they had no comforter" — when he beheld these things — " I praised," saith he, " 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, which is... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Congregational churches - 1839 - 472 pages
...Christian may escape by an early removal from this region of uncertainty. The Preacher once said, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive." It may be so now. Our departed brother is, at least, delivered from an emaciating and distressing complaint;... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...comforter; and on the f side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. b Job a. 17, 2 ]. c** s. 11, Q c yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil... | |
 | John Scott - 1839 - 554 pages
...which afflict the just. The afflictions of some are so great as to induce the spectator to s,ay, " Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are alive." The grave often appears a desirable refuge from the calamities of life, and excites to implore... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 132 pages
...wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Eccl. ii. 17. "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2. His ideas of the Almighty now alarmed him; his life was a burden, and nothing but the... | |
 | Christian life - 1840 - 248 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... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - Great Britain - 1840 - 684 pages
..." Laudavi mortuos magis quain viventes, sed feliciorem utroque judicavi, qui needum natus est," ie, 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 has not yet been. En-les. iv. 23 This preacher, when he comes... | |
 | John Pring - 1840 - 124 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 which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done... | |
 | John James - 1840 - 946 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. 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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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... 
