 | Benjamin Weiss - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...earthly scenes and transactions shall have rolled into eternal forgetfulncss. (CHAPTER vn. VER. 1.) 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, And the day of death than the day of his birth. The ointment so much used by the orientals in olden times, and which... | |
 | Israel Joseph Benjamin - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...customs from birth to death, I conclude with the words of Salomon, who says in Ecclesiastes c. VII, 1.2: ,,A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of... | |
 | 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. Monday — Septuagesima. ECCLESIASTES VII. 1 10. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house... | |
 | 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 1346
...Sundry observations and admonition*. 11 A commcndaîion of tcisdotn. 23 The difficulty in obtaining it. not be fastened in the walls of the house. 7 And the house, death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 760
...vision—" houses of God, and gates of heaven." MEMOIR OF THE REV. JAMES ANDERSON, LATE OP CARLUKE. "-A GOOD name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Such was the estimate of Solomon, and such must be the estimate... | |
 | Edmund Baker - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...blending, And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb. TO BE, OR NOT TO BE? CHAPTER I. WISDOM HATH WEITTEN IT. A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.— ECCLES. vii. 1. " To BE, or not to be ? that is the question."... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 982
...chiefly raised by a rate on householders. (To be continued.} A PEACEFUL END. THE wise man has truly said, "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth." And the devout Psalmist has also observed, " Mark the perfect... | |
 | John Hayden (independent minister.) - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 136
...the words of Solomon be more justly applied to any man than to him who thus fell asleep in Jesus: — "A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. "J And if the Thracians commended those who wept when men were born,... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...that beareth false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow. Kc. 7: 1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. [S*e 72'J, 730.] RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. €17. General resurrection... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...— Ps. xxxvii. 37. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. — Ps. cxvi. 15. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. — Eccles. vii. 1. Blessed are they that mourn : for they shall... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
