 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised...  Discourses on practical physic - Page 1by Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson - 1871 - 93 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Smalridge (bp. of Bristol.) - 1852 - 580 pages
...side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter. This consideration led him to praise the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive: and the same consideration, if sufficiently attended to, would make us also entertain a more favourable... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1852 - 790 pages
...comforter; and on the side of the 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 alive." (Ec. iv. 1, 2.) Solomon never saw any oppression like this, unless he looked forward to this very instance... | |
 | sir George Sinclair (2nd bart.) - Protestants - 1852 - 818 pages
...have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun;" he not only " praises the dead, which are already dead, more than the living, which are yet alive," but, by believing that they can, whilst dwelling in the " many mansions" of their Father's house, hear... | |
 | Edward Beecher - Atonement - 1853 - 570 pages
...no comforter. 7 So much was the author's sensibility shocked and his pity moved, that he ' praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive,' and thought it was better never to have been born than to have an existence in a world so full of injustice.... | |
 | Edward Higginson - Bible - 1853 - 548 pages
...the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" (iii. 19—21.) * * * # • " I praised the dead which are already dead, More than the living which are yet alive. Tea, better than they both, is he which hath not yet been, Who hath not seen the evil work Which is... | |
 | Susan Warner - Bible - 1853 - 868 pages
...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 alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, uilio hntl) not seen the euil work tl)ut... | |
 | Edward Beecher - Atonement - 1853 - 576 pages
...had no comforter.' So much was the author's sensibility shocked and his pity moved, that he ' praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive,' and thought it waa better never to have been bom than to have an existence in a world so full of injustice.... | |
 | Edward Beecher - Atonement - 1853 - 578 pages
...had no comforter.' So much was the author's sensibility shocked and his pity moved, that he ' praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive,' and thought it was better never to have been born than to have an existence in a world so full of injustice.... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pages
...on the 'side of their oppressors there tea* power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
 | Henry Harbaugh - Future life - 1853 - 410 pages
...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 alive." In vain do we look for a free and full evolution of the moral nature, where the selfishness of men... | |
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