 | Nathaniel Spinckes - Church work with the sick - 1775 - 468 pages
...(d) It is better, fays the preacher, to go to the boufe of mourning, than to the boufe of Jeafting ; for that is the end of all men, and the living -will lay it to heart. What better motive can there be to a true repentance for all our fins, and a ferious and affecting... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 480 pages
...mourning than to the houfe of feafting. I deny — but let us hear the wife man's reafoning upon it — . for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to his heart : forrow is hetter than laughter — for a crack'd. brain'd order of Carthufian monks, I grant, but... | |
 | James Beattie - Aesthetics - 1783 - 862 pages
...when he fays, ** It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, " than to the houfe of feafting; — for by the " fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made ." better." It mayfeem, in thefe days, an unnecefiary advice; and yet I /hould not do juftice to my fubjedt, if... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1785 - 496 pages
...ECCLESIASTES, Vli. 2, 3, 4. // is better to go to the boufe of mourning, than to go to the houfe off caJling; for that is the end of all men, and the living will...fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made better. 'fhe. heart of the 'wife is in the houfe of mourning ; but the heart of fools is in the boufe of mirth.... | |
 | Thomas Francklin - Sermons, English - 1787 - 404 pages
...from them, tha.t \. . , . It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than to the houfe offeqfting -} for that is the end of all men, and the living 'will lay it /<? heart* *' Sorrow, fays he, is better than laughter, for by the fadnefs of the countenance the heart... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfeof feafting ; for that is. the end of all men ; and the living will lay it to his heart. . ,. . ,; 3 Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the fadnefs of the countenance the heart is made... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 470 pages
...EcCLESIASTEf, vii. 2, 3, 4. It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to the houfe of feajlmg ; for that is the end of all men, and the living •will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is belter than laughter ; for by the Jadnefs of tbe countenance the heart is made better. T*be heart of... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1791 - 212 pages
...laughter, " it is mad, and of mirth, what doth it ?" Ecclef. ii. 2. and Ecclef. vii. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. " It is better to go to the houfe of mourning than to...heart. Sorrow is better than laughter ; for by the fadnels of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wife is in the houfe of mourning... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1792 - 624 pages
...thofe who are deceafed, and to fuch as they hive left behind them. 1. With fefpccl: to himfelf. Death is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to It's heart || . It is becaufe we do not lay it to our hearts, that we moft of us go on juft as if VOL.... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...for their puniihment ; fo that, whether you are the one or the other, you have no charter of fecurity from the fame calamities. (4) Think much of mortality,...the end of all men, " and the living will lay it to bis heart. Sorrow is better " than laughter : for by the fadnefs of the countenance *' the heart is... | |
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It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 
