 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 224
...Scriptures. William Eeroyd had only read a few verses from the 7th chapter of Ecclesiastes, beginning " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," when the youngest son marked an alarming change in his mother's... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward." (5.) Eccles. vii. I : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
 | 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...show Thyself pure, And with the froward Thou wilt show Thyself froward.'' (5.) Eccles. vii. i : — " A good name (is) better than precious ointment ; And the day of death than the day of one's birth." There is no visible connexion in the subjects of these two lines... | |
 | National Grange - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 72
...of the grave, and the pall-bearers at the sides, and each breaks and throws in his bouquet.) Master. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. [He] shall go as [he'] came, and take nothing of \Jiis~] labor which... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 50
...realms of bliss? Mr. Speaker, death itself is not without its consolations. Ecclesiastes taught that "a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth." Lord Bacon said : " Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate... | |
 | Alexander Dickson - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...cry of pain, often mingled with pleasure, because the weary, weeping earth-way is coming to an end: "A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.'" To make us pure and holy, and prepare us for heaven, we may be... | |
 | Scottish pulpit - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH. GLASGOW. " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of... | |
 | 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 298
...enjoyments. TRUE HAPPINESS: A LECTURE. BY THE REV. ROBERT JAMIESON, DD ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, GLASGOW. " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of... | |
 | 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 1060
...work on earth was finished, and believing, as I do, in the wisdom of the conclusion of the King, that a ' good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death better than .the day on one's birth,' why then should we contem , late the departure of such... | |
 | 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...with him in his glory, and say, 'Come death, and some celestial band, To fetch my soul away;' for ' a good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth' (Eccles. vii. 1). To have Christ revealed within us, and be perfumed... | |
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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. 
