 | John Miller - 1830 - 544 pages
...extreme naturalness; that is to say, from its direct and obvious likeness to the realities of life. " Say " not thou, What is the cause that the former days " were better than these?"— who has not met, in life, with such a disposition as the wise man here reproves ? Is it not a tendency... | |
 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...come to a better mind, and never more forsake their own mercies. SERMON CVII. — On Former Times. " Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than tbeic • For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this," Eccl. vii, 10. 1. IT is not easy to discern... | |
 | 1830 - 1070 pages
...darkness, and hia name shall be covered with darkness. ingry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were 5 Moreover he hath not seen the better than these .' for thou dost sun, nor known any thing : this... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pages
...Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not tliou, r thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father,...saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear 11 II Wisdom is good with an inheritnce : and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For... | |
 | 1831 - 476 pages
...parting our unfeigned admiration, with the following precautionary recommendation of the wise man: "Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this." The first English Steam-Boat. WITH A WOOD ENGRAVING. THE following... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou, What is the ciaiar. that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 11 II Wisdom i* good with on inheritance: and by U there ia profit to them that see the sun. 12 For... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...Cor. vii. 20, 21. 3 Luke xii. 29. Phil. iv. 6. Luke xii. 29. 31. 30, 31. 4 2 Chron. i. 11. Phil. 1 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days...For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 1 Let us not envy one another. ' The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy ; but charity envieth... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1832 - 576 pages
...appealed. VI. Wide was the observation and great the experience of him who delivered this precept: — " Say not " thou, What is the cause, that the former days were • Vol. iii. Praef. p. iv.; and p. 432—*37. f The " C'odrx Hoinanus." J Prtcf. p. iii. " better... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...effusions of discontent — [In every age, discontented men have been forward to make this inquiry ; " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? " They make no endeavour to ascertain the correctness of their sentiments; but, taking for granted... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...political gloom has been relieved by more than gleams of religious glory. Let us not ask with some, " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ?" The fact itself is, at least as to spiritual things, certainly inadmissible. Conceding that eighty... | |
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Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 
