 | John Scott - 1704 - 510 pages
...the Text^ I fhall not trouble you with any account of the Connexion between thefe two Comparifons, A good name is better than precious ointment ; and 'the day of Death is better than the day 'of ones Birth : The latter of which I have chofen for the Subject of my enfuing... | |
 | John Wilkins - 1722 - 420 pages
...pubilickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Ecclef.jt where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of ones death than the day of ones birth. When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
 | John Wilkins (bp. of Chester.) - 1734 - 422 pages
...publickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Rcclef.j. r, where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth.When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1774 - 270 pages
...fleered and governed. In the firft verfe of this chapter (the verfe before the text) he tells us, that " a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. A good name is "be to- than precious ointment ;" . e. rich... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...he fpendeth as a fhadow ? for who can tell a man what fhalll)^ after him under the fun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfeof feafting ;... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 pages
...B1RTH-DAY. The fubftance of feveral Sermons preached aC Etterick, in the year 1730. ECCL. vii. 1. Agmd name is better than precious ointment; and the day. of death, than the day of one' -s birth. " EVER man more livelily reprefented the vanity of this world and: human Hfe, than Solomon... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...accounts it is, I doubt not, that the day of death is preferable before the day of one's birth : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," Eccles. vii. 1. On tlie same accounts, I do not question, Paul did prefer to die rather... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...vanity, are a good name, 2 mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. '13 The difficulty of getting aisdom. A Good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 ^f -ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...vanity, are a good name, ^mortification, 7/iaticnce, llwudom. 23 The difficulty qf getting wisdom. Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he house of feasting :... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...subjoins in the close of the chapter, namely, the bitterness of an insnaring woman, ver. 25 — 29. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Or, " A name is good before good ointment." A name, for a good name ; as a wife, for a... | |
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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. 
