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... Essays: Philosophical, Historical & Literary - Page 252by William Belsham - 1791Full view - About this book
| Simeon Ashe - 1642 - 80 pages
...the fide of t heir oppreffeurs there-s was power, but there was no Comforter. Wherefore I •praijed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are jet alive. Many in this Kirgdome have dyed many deaths under the y ron hands of heavy opprtffours,... | |
| John Piggott - 1714 - 554 pages
...ask, Is not this inconfiftent with what the Wife- Man ECC!. 4..i. has elfewhere advanc'd, in fraifmg the Dead. which are already dead^ more than the Living which are yet alive ? To this I return, that ) in one Paflage he has regard to the Troubles of Life, and in the other to... | |
| William Sherlock - 1715 - 474 pages
...compare the fenfible Advantages and Difadvantages of Life, may make Death much more defirable than Life. I praifed the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. For the underftanding of which we muft coniider, That this is one of thofe Sayings which muft not be... | |
| John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...no Comforter. This fo affected his Heart, that in the Bitternefs of his Concern he adds, Wherefore I praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. But this feems to have been the Language of Paffion and Melancholy. A more juft and reafonable Conclufion... | |
| John Gill - 1773 - 678 pages
...Occafioned by the Death of the Reverend Mr JAMES FALL. Ее с L ES. IV. г. Wherefore I praifed tbe dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive, - - ------551 SERM. 34. Occafioned by the Death of Mrs ELIZABETH GILL. HEBREWS XI. 16. But now they... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...reason to doubt, whether it be the language of Solomon or the fool introduced in the book) J.pra ised 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, Eccjes. iv. 2, 3. To consider things as... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 524 pages
...when .Solomon had confidered all theoppreffions and fore evils done under the fun^ he exclaimed, " I " praifed the dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive ; yea, better is he than both they» " whick hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work " that... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 530 pages
...had confidered all the oppreA fions and fore evils done under the fun, he exclaimed, " I " praife'i the dead which are already dead, more than the " living which are yet alive ; yea, belter is he than both they, " which hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work " that... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...[there was] power ; but they had no comforter. : and this ver2 edmy sfíirít ¡ Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive ; / thought them in a better condition than those тиЛо suffer by ojifiression, iv/iofear 3 it,... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 pages
...reason to doubt whether it be the language of Solomon or the foot / introduced in the book) 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, Eccles. iv. 2, 3. To consider things as... | |
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