 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 páginas
...whose evil they felt not, or have for" gotten. But hear what God saith, Eccles.vii. 10. "Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? forthou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall... | |
 | John Miller - 1830 - 544 páginas
...naturalness; that is to say, from its direct and obvious likeness to the realities of life. " Say " not thou, What is the cause that the former days " were better than these?"— who has not met, in life, with such a disposition as the wise man here reproves ? Is it not a tendency... | |
 | 1831 - 476 páginas
...unfeigned admiration, with the following precautionary recommendation of the wise man: "Say not thou, what is the cause that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this." The first English Steam-Boat. WITH A WOOD ENGRAVING.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 páginas
...effusions of discontent — [In every age, discontented men have been forward to make this inquiry ; " What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? " They make no endeavour to ascertain the correctness of their sentiments; but, taking for granted... | |
 | 1832 - 896 páginas
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 páginas
...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 Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 páginas
...Providence, what Solomon exhorted the Jews to shun, we may advise each other not to do — " Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." In such an inquiry it is evident that the fact is assumed,... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 páginas
..." 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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 páginas
...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 were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this. ^f11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by it there... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
