 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...have suffered much, and have had much to deplore, yet " the walls of the temple" have been rising1 " in troublous times," and our political gloom has been...life were more cheaply purchasable, how much more tban counterbalanced was this, by an unconverted ministry, a people perishing for lack of knowledge,... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 pages
..." 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 ;... | |
 | Henry Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1833 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1834 - 444 pages
...the same frailty appears to have subsisted two or three thousands of years before : "Say not then, What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." — Ecclee. vii. 10. 432 CONCLUSION. God. Let... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1834 - 730 pages
...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 were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this," — implying, that very probably such impressions... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1837 - 428 pages
...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 were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning them." — Eccles. vii., 10. These are the words of Solomon,... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...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 were better than these ? For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." — Ecclesiaetes vii. 10. WE must make the best... | |
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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. 
