 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 pages
...praise the dead that die in the Lord, Rev. xiv. 13. I allude to the word in Eccl. iv. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead -which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. Christ will have them where he is, that they may behold his glory ; and when he calls and takes them,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...denotes the sadness of their condition, as Job calls once and again for pity, Job xix. 21. 2. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. I esteemed the dead more happy. " The dead which are already dead," is emphatical : our mortality makes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 496 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," Eccles. iv. 2. In this sermon, after exhausting his powers of oratory in celebrating his saint of a... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 pages
...is some reason to doubt, whether it be the language of Solomon or the fool introduced in the book) I praised the dead which are already dead, more than...better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, Eccles. iv. 2, 3. To consider things as they usually are, whatever misfortunes attend life, mankind... | |
 | 1863 - 904 pages
...their virtues shine forth with resplendent lustre. " Wherefore I praised the dead," said Solomon, " which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive." . There is some danger in constructing eulogies on their persons, of giving indiscriminate praise,... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...festivity some melancholy thoughts will intrude themselves to dash our mirth. And Solomon says, " wherefore I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." This sentiment is amplified in the following lines of Prior's Solomon : " Thrice happy is the man who... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 pages
...admitted into Christ's presence. As;ain, this farther appears from the words of Solomon, in Eccl. iv. 2. I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive. By which we are to understand, that the state of believers, when they die, is much more happy than... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea, better u he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | 1815 - 974 pages
...2 Wherefore, 1 praifed the dead xvhich are already dead, more than the living wMch are yet a'ive*i Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not feen the evil work that is done under the fun. I fl Again, 1 conlMered all travail, and every right... | |
 | 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," Eccles. iv. 2. In this sermon, after exhausting his powers of oratory in celebrating his saint of a... | |
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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. 
