| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 892
...thoughts dwelt these delightful words, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
| Society of friends - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...Scriptures. William Ecroyd had only read a few verses from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, beginning " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," when the youngest son marked an alarming change in his mother's... | |
| University magazine - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 828
...thoughts dwelt these delightful word?, stamped with the authority of the old pensive Ecclesiastes : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Cultured as many of them were, they did not reach those lengthened... | |
| 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward.'' (5.) Eccles. vii. i : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
| 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward." (5.) Eccles. vii. I : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
| United States. Congress - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 50
...the realms of bliss? Mr. Speaker, death itself is not without its consolations. Ecclesiastes taught that "a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Lord Bacon said : " Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate... | |
| Alexander Dickson - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...cry of pain, often mingled with pleasure, because the weary, weeping earth-way is coming to an end: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.'" To make us pure and holy, and prepare us for heaven, we may be... | |
| National Grange - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 72
...of the grave, and the pall-bearers at the sides, and each breaks and throws in his bouquet.) Master. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. [He] shall go as [he'] came, and take nothing of \Jiis~] labor which... | |
| Scottish pulpit - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. GLASGOW. " 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 the house of... | |
| 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, GLASGOW. " 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 the house of... | |
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