 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 490 pages
...first was, when appointed to preach queen Mary's funeral sermon, or oration. His text was, "Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive," Eecles. iv. 2. In this sermon, after exhausting his powers of oratory in celebrating his saint of a... | |
 | 1864 - 814 pages
...made a very black sermon," taking for his text Ecclesiastes iv. 2, Laudavi mortttos, <fec., "I have praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." If there was any difficulty in the application, the preacher took care that his hearers should understand... | |
 | Peter Smith - 1818 - 510 pages
...done under the sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; then I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." Our virtuous friends, whom death has translated to a better world, are now free from the endless train... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 480 pages
...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 to die." The three following ideas are evidently suggested by the passage recited : I. In relation... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead wbicti arc already dead more than the which are yet alive. 3 men's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.. 12 T No me evil work that is done under the sun. 4 IT Again, 1 considered all travail, M? every right work,... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...comforter. Wherefore, if this world and human pursuits are to be regarded as the things of highest value, I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive, inasmuch as it would be better to die than to endure the persecutions which are inflicted by tyranny... | |
 | 1824 - 394 pages
...hand, and with the other is making some vain c Moris to push htm off. No. XIV.— THE ABBESS. Wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive. ECCLE8. iv. 2. DEATH ludicrously hooded with several flowing plumes, and robed in a kind of gown, carries... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...the fairest fruit, at his success They pine, his worth depreciate, blast his name.! b [2] Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive, c [3] Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the e. vil work... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1825 - 568 pages
...side of their oppressors was power ; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead, that are already dead, more than the living, which are...better is he, than both they, which hath not yet been ; and hath not seen tlte evil work, that is done under the sun *. But though a merciful Providence... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...already dead more than the livilig which are yet alive. 3 Yea, hetter is he than both they, wlu'ch ams 4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour.... | |
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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 under the sun. 
