 | George Miller - 1813 - 638 pages
...that I might learn thy statutes." The wise and judicious SoI.OMON gives it as his decided opinion, that " it is better to go to the house, of mourning than to the house of feasting;" — that " by the sadness of the countenance the heart « made better ;" and " that the heart of the... | |
 | John Ovington - Marriage - 1813 - 168 pages
...form any conception of, but those who have experienced them. But the wisdom of inspiration informs us, that, " It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart : and that sorrow is better... | |
 | J S. Pipe - Christianity - England - 19th century - 1813 - 646 pages
...die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his." Hence the Holy Spirit informs us that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of mirth : for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart." How affecting, and what... | |
 | 1824 - 452 pages
...Jews that came to Martha and Mary " to comfort them concerning their brother." They doubtless found, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting," for " The chamber where the good maa raeels his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...instead of wishing to avoid such dispensation by sinful methods, the Wise Man tells us in the text, that It is better to go to the House of Mourning, than to the House of Feasting. Those persons, therefore, of whom Isaiah speaks, in his fifty-sixth chapter, who say, Come ye, I will... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - Physicians - 1817 - 640 pages
...prospects, "to rejoice with fear and trembling." The mind, however, chastened by reflection, often finds that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." Thou and I, my friend — friends by sentiment — and not less so by domestic affliction, will not... | |
 | Anna Maria Porter - Malta - 1817 - 1054 pages
...wretchedness by courting painful emotions ? Both his heart and his reason answered, yes. We are told that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting ; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better :" and if we do not abandon ourselves... | |
 | Christianity - 1821 - 740 pages
...submissive Christian is the only true one ; that in order to be liberal, we must practise self-denial ; and that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting" — " for by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better." I would only add, that her... | |
 | Ann Yosy - Christian life - 1822 - 198 pages
...2 consider ourselves most free from every selfish .motive. I bad learned, by profitable experience, that it "is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting." There we survey what, sooner or later, must happen toiourselves ; and the chamber of death becomes... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...deity," — and will, in Yorick's despite, freely and at once acknowledge with the preacher of antiquity, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." The merriest faces, it has been said, are to be seen in mourningcoaches ; and though a ride in a mourning-coach... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart. 
