 | John Scott - 1704 - 510 стор.
...the Text^ I fhall not trouble you with any account of the Connexion between thefe two Comparifons, A good name is better than precious ointment ; and 'the day of Death is better than the day 'of ones Birth : The latter of which I have chofen for the Subject of... | |
 | John Wilkins - 1722 - 420 стор.
...which alfb were pubilickly burnt at the Interment. To which I conceive the Preacher alludes, Ecclef.jt where he fays, A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of ones death than the day of ones birth. When one cometh into the World, none knows how he may prove... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - 1774 - 270 стор.
...fleered and governed. In the firft verfe of this chapter (the verfe before the text) he tells us, that " a good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of one's death than the day of one's birth. A good name is "be to- than precious ointment ;" . e. rich oils and fweet odors (in the ufe... | |
 | 1788 - 598 стор.
...he fpendeth as a fhadow ? for who can tell a man what fhalll)^ after him under the fun ? CHAP. VII. A GOOD name is better than precious ointment : and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. 2 fl It is better to go to the houfe of mourning, than to go to... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 стор.
...accounts it is, I doubt not, that the day of death is preferable before the day of one's birth : " A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth," Eccles. vii. 1. On tlie same accounts, I do not question, Paul... | |
 | 1807 - 570 стор.
...vanity, are a good name, 2 mortification, 7 patience, 1 1 wisdom. '13 The difficulty of getting aisdom. A Good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 ^f -ft is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 стор.
...vanity, are a good name, ^mortification, 7/iaticnce, llwudom. 23 The difficulty qf getting wisdom. Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, death than the day of one's birth. 2 f It in better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to (he... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 стор.
...subjoins in the close of the chapter, namely, the bitterness of an insnaring woman, ver. 25 — 29. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Or, " A name is good before good ointment." A name, for a good name... | |
 | 1815 - 614 стор.
...he spendeth as a shadow ? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun ? CHAP. VII. A Good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. 2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the... | |
 | Robert Morehead - 1816 - 492 стор.
...but the end shall not be yet 432 DISCOURSE XXVII. On the Good Name of the Dead. ECCLESIASTES, vii. 1. A good name is better than precious ointment ; and the day of death than the day of one's birth ,...,.. ...... ... DISCOURSE I. ON THE CHARACTERS OF RELIGION IN... | |
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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. 
