| John Pring - 1840 - 124 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...not seen the evil work that is done under the -sun." (Eccles. iv. 1, &c.) And thanks to this continued struggle, I have still after a ministry of forty... | |
| 1840 - 248 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...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun." Such is the dark state of things in this world, as is proved if we look abroad on every side, or examine... | |
| Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 684 pages
...mortuos magis quain viventes, sed feliciorem utroque judicavi, qui needum natus est," ie, Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than...yet alive; yea, better is he than both they, which has not yet been. En-les. iv. 23 This preacher, when he comes to touch upon the queen's ' character,... | |
| John James - 1840 - 946 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 alive. 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 132 pages
...under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Eccl. ii. 17. "Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive," Eccl. iv. 2. His ideas of the Almighty now alarmed him; his life was a burden, and nothing but the... | |
| Jeremy Collier - 1840 - 674 pages
...mortuos magis quam viventes, sed feliciorem utroque judicavi, qui necdum natus est," ie, Wherefore, I praised the dead, which are already dead, more than the living which arc yet alive ; yea, better is he than both they, which has not yet been. Eccies. iv. 9 "i This preacher,... | |
| James Duncan - 1840 - 150 pages
...comfort ; 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 who are yet alive." That these words were designed to display the miserable condition of persons in... | |
| 1841 - 580 pages
...revelled in human magnificence, and to whom Heaven had granted a living gift of ' wisdom." ' Wherefore I praised the . dead which are already dead, more...which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun ; ' and ' How dieth the wise man as the... | |
| John Campbell - 1842 - 512 pages
...comforter : 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...not seen the evil work that is done under the sun!"* How touching is the following * Eccles. iv. 1 — 3. delineation of the character of the new King !... | |
| Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 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 is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
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