 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 หน้า
...political gloom has been relieved by more than gleams of religious glory. Let us not ask with some, " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ?" The fact itself is, at least as to spiritual things, certainly inadmissible. Conceding that eighty... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford (bp. of Hereford.) - 1832 - 576 หน้า
...appealed. VI. Wide was the observation and great the experience of him who delivered this precept: — " Say not " thou, What is the cause, that the former days were • Vol. iii. Praef. p. iv.; and p. 432—*37. f The " C'odrx Hoinanus." J Prtcf. p. iii. " better... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 หน้า
...proud in spirit. 9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days...for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. ^f11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For... | |
 | Henry Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 หน้า
...of the body I cannot tell 329 DISCOURSE XXIII. TIMES IMPROVE AS THEY ADVANCE. ECCLESIASTES vii. 10 : Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days...these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning tki, ' ---- ' ...'.. 347 DISCOURSE XXIV. THE PERPETUITY OF RELIGION. HEBREWS xiii. 8 : Page Jesus Christ... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 หน้า
...than them both." " Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry : for anger restcth in the bosom of fools. Say not thou " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning them." "Take no heed unto all words that are spoken ; lest thou hear thy... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 หน้า
...political gloom has been relieved by more than gleams of religious glory. Let us not ask with some, " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ?" The fact itself is, at least as to spiritual things, certainly inadmissible. Conceding that eighty... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1833 - 402 หน้า
...vouchsafed. Thus, under a specious, but more dangerous aspect, we are met again by the question, " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ?" Now we believe the question to be grounded altogether on mistake. If there be advantage on one side... | |
 | 1834 - 444 หน้า
...modern days, I beg leave to send it to you, with the excellent comment of M. Henry. Your's, &c. OTK " Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days...For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." — Ecclesiaetes vii. 10. WE must make the best of that which is. Take it not for granted that the... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 หน้า
...all the labour which is taken under the sun." But from the same source we may cite the admonition, " Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days...for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this," — implying, that very probably such impressions were erroneous. How then shall we resist the strong... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1837 - 428 หน้า
...who are stimulated to the expression of them by interest or affection. THE OLD LADY'S COMPLAINT. " SAY not thou, What is the cause that the former days...these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning them." — Eccles. vii., 10. These are the words of Solomon, and prove that man was given to murmur... | |
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Say not thou. What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 
