 | Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...burden, And desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home And the mourners go about the streets. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, And the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
 | Walter John Trower (bp. of Gibraltar.) - 1848 - 116 pages
...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...And desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, And the mourners go about the streets : 5 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; And the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. This entire discourse appears to... | |
 | 1849 - 642 pages
...affectionately admonishes the young to ' remember now their Creator in the days of their youth,' ' or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern ; — then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return to God who gave... | |
 | 1849 - 208 pages
...Fairlie, who died August 6th 1837, aged 78 years. John Thorn died 18th June 1840, aged 78 years. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then Khali the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return to God who gave it."... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...EMPEROR OF GERMANY. HIS VISITS TO ENGLAND,— HIS RETREAT TO A MONASTERY,— AND DEATH. BY CHIRUROUS. " th. — " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | 1849 - 360 pages
...and desire shall fail : because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return Counsel of Wisdom.... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...MARSHALL. Might not the following possibly be the source from which the adage has been adapted ? — " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern " (Ecolesiastes lii. 6). WILLIAM TKUO. Doughty Street, WC There are two varieties of this proverb in... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...And desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, And the mourners go about the streets : s Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the cistern. ' Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; And the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | 1894 - 664 pages
...ARSIlALL. Might not the following possibly be the source from which the adage has been adapted 1—" Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern" (Ecclesiastes xiL 6). WILLIAM TEGG. There are two varieties of this proverb in French :— 1. Tant... | |
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... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it. 
