| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...temporalities of Canterbury (of which he was then archbishop) were so ruined by his predecessor, that be could not live in a manner suitable to his rank. On...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... | |
| England - 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 - Sermons - 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 - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...had no 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... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...had no 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 Jiving which are yet alive." The three following ideas are evidently suggested by the passage recited... | |
| George Holden - Bible - 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
...with one 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
...Preys on 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 Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; hut they had no comforter. 2 : 0 livilig which are yet alive. 3 Yea, hetter is he than both they, wlu'ch hath not yet been, who hath... | |
| George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...comforter; and on the ||side of their oppressors tliere was power ; but they had no comforter. IT, 2 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 4 ^ Again, I considered all travail, and * every right Acoso work, that -f- for this a man is envied... | |
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