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" Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. "
The New Monthly Magazine - Page 507
1823
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The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.

John Wesley - 1812 - 446 pages
..., With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other, cautions us...
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The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2

Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. JL HE Wise Man tells us, that it is belter to. go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. The house of mirth is generally the house of extravagance, the house of absurdity and vanity : but the...
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Memoirs of Her Late Royal Highness Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales ...

Robert Huish - 1818 - 904 pages
...Thomas, the Rector, the text from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, 2d verso — " It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." The whole of the day was observed with solemnity suited to the melancholy occasion, and clearly evinced...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 8

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...Yorick's despite, freely and at once acknowledge with the preacher of antiquity, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting."...fail to put the idea into a man's head ; the memento mori reminding him of his legitimate expectations in some other quarter, and forcibly impressing on...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal, Volume 6

1823 - 592 pages
...preacher of antiquity, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of ieasting." The merriest faces, it has been said, are to be seen...fail to put the idea into a man's head ; the memento mori reminding him of his legitimate expectations in some other quarter, and forcibly impressing on...
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Collections, Historical & Miscellaneous, and Monthly Literary Journal, Volume 2

John Farmer - 1823 - 526 pages
...Long Wharf. FOR THE LITERARY JOURNAL. [A great teacher bath informed us, " that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." — The following beautiful lines breathe a spirit of calmness and resignation, certainly not to be found among...
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The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 2

Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. THE Wise Man tells us, that it ' is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.* The house of mirth is generally the house of extravagance, the house of absurdity and vanity : but the...
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Containing fifty-five sermons on various subjects

John Wesley - 1826 - 420 pages
...! With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other, cautions us...
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Sermons on Several Occasions, Volume 2

John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...t With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other cautions us...
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Sermons: Accompanied by Suitable Prayers, Designed to be Used in ..., Volume 2

John Relly Beard - 1832 - 516 pages
...Higgintan. 159 SERMON XI. A Message from God. Rev. G. Harris, 173 VB«RJ«ON XII. It is better to go to the House of Mourning, than to the House of Feasting. The late Rev. GB Waiumt. 186 SiRMOif XIII. Shame of the Gospel Reprored. t M. Ditty, Professor of Theology...
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