 | Robert Hall - 1832 - 592 pages
...they shall confess they have no pleasure in them. " Let us enjoy the good things that are present." " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered."* Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise which impress an indelible... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1832 - 592 pages
...they have no pleasure in them. * Eccles. xi. 7. " Let us enjoy the good things that are present" " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.'1*;. •. .§• Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the same spirit seems to have prevailed amongst the Hebrews. "Let us fill ourselves," says Solomon, " with costly wine and ointments; and let no flower...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered." But, amongst that solemn and poetical people, they were commonly regarded in another and higher sense;... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...awny : and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that...are present: and let us speedily use the creatures Tike as in youth. Let us fill ourselves as .with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...one hand stands vice, with all her false deceits and flatteries, h'er temptations are strong, " Come then is our preaching v;iin, and your faith is also as in youth, let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments, and let no flower of the spring... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1832 - 1060 pages
...opportunities. But we have this custom described at full length in Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus : — "Let no flower of the spring pass by us ; let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, chap. ii. 8. " Wisdom weareth a crown, triumphing for ever," chap. iv. 2. " The fear of the Lord is... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 698 pages
...they shall confess they have no pleasure in them. " Let us enjoy the good things that are present." " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered."^ Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise which impress an indelible... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1833 - 708 pages
...they shall confess they have no pleasure in them. " Let us enjoy the good things that are present." " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments,...ourselves with rose-buds before they be withered."! Experience, in most cases, soon alters their sentiments, and events arise which impress an indelible... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 1833 - 722 pages
...away : and after our end there is no returning: for it is fast sealed, so that no man cometh again. Come on, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that...creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves as with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us. Let us crown ourselves... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Bible - 1833 - 394 pages
...to have been a favourite ornament. The Jewish sensualists, in Wisd. ii. 8, are introduced, saying: " Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments...Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered74." From the Targum, R. David, and the Arabic, Celsius, Hierob. V. i. p. 488, concludes... | |
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Come on therefore, let us enjoy the good things that are present : and let us speedily use the creatures like as in youth. Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments : and let no flower of the spring pass by us : Let us crown ourselves with... 
