 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
 | Maria Tolman Richards - Christian life - 1854 - 334 pages
...that is done under the sun, and said, ' it is all vanity and vexation of spirit. Wherefore, I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive.' " Thus musing, I sat one morning on the east of the Sea of Galilee. The sun shone clear and brilliant... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 pages
...passages for your pages, which may prove acceptable. I . "To die is letter than to live." " 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, who hath not seeu the evil work that is... | |
 | Edward Beecher - Atonement - 1854 - 574 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... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - 1854 - 418 pages
...they enjoy much while they are practising their oppressions, why should he say, ' Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive ' ? Whether this sort of reasoning gave my Unitarian brother any satisfaction, he did not directly... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1854 - 820 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... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1854 - 210 pages
...in the Saviour die, Shall hear those seers again. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. POWER OF THE DEAD. 1 I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living: which are yet aiive." — Eccles. iv. 2. " Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from thenceforth .... They... | |
 | David Knowles - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 236 pages
...abbot preached from a text which may have borne heavy undertones for the preacher: 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both which hath not yet been.' A month later Elizabeth was crowned in the Abbey,... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...and on the side of their oppressors there was 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... | |
 | David Knowles, Dom David Knowles - History - 1979 - 542 pages
...abbot preached from a text which may have borne heavy undertones for the preacher: 'Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both which hath not yet been.'* A month later Elizabeth was crowned in the Abbey,... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is... | |
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