| John Wesley - 1812 - 446 pages
..., With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other, cautions us... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - 572 pages
...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. JL HE Wise Man tells us, that it is belter to. go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting. The house of mirth is generally the house of extravagance, the house of absurdity and vanity : but the... | |
| Robert Huish - 1818 - 904 pages
...Thomas, the Rector, the text from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, 2d verso — " It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." The whole of the day was observed with solemnity suited to the melancholy occasion, and clearly evinced... | |
| 1823 - 592 pages
...preacher of antiquity, that " it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of ieasting." The merriest faces, it has been said, are to be seen...fail to put the idea into a man's head ; the memento mori reminding him of his legitimate expectations in some other quarter, and forcibly impressing on... | |
| John Farmer - 1823 - 526 pages
...Long Wharf. FOR THE LITERARY JOURNAL. [A great teacher bath informed us, " that it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." — The following beautiful lines breathe a spirit of calmness and resignation, certainly not to be found among... | |
| Richard Cecil - 1825 - 436 pages
...repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. THE Wise Man tells us, that it ' is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting.* The house of mirth is generally the house of extravagance, the house of absurdity and vanity : but the... | |
| John Wesley - 1826 - 420 pages
...! With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other, cautions us... | |
| John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...t With this consideration well imprinted in our minds, it is far better, as Solomon observes, to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting. The one unbraces the soul, disarms our resolution, and lays us open to an attack. The other cautions us... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1832 - 516 pages
...Higgintan. 159 SERMON XI. A Message from God. Rev. G. Harris, 173 VB«RJ«ON XII. It is better to go to the House of Mourning, than to the House of Feasting. The late Rev. GB Waiumt. 186 SiRMOif XIII. Shame of the Gospel Reprored. t M. Ditty, Professor of Theology... | |
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