| Nicholas Patrick S. Wiseman (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1868 - Počet stránok 552
...the dis-severmentJ Why add to the desolation of that hour by giving it greater power over us ? " O death ! how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a...in his possessions, to a man that is at rest, and prosperous in all things." (Eccles. xl. 1, 2.) 2. Reflect how all these separations will be between... | |
| Jesus Christ - 1868 - Počet stránok 442
...painful to us ; the first is, attachment to earthly possessions. ' 0 death,' says Ecclesiasticus, ' how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions ! ' He has laid up these possessions with much labour for many years, and he is to be separated from... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1869 - Počet stránok 268
...world : he must neither love any thing passionately, nor be proud of any circumstance of his life. " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, to a man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity... | |
| Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1870 - Počet stránok 340
...long experience, the Hand that will then lead us, and thus win courage for the final struggle. " O Death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity... | |
| Henry Wace - 1888 - Počet stránok 664
...II Of an evil and a good name. 14 Wisdom is to be uttered. 16 Of what things we should be ashamed. O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to BC cir. 200. entirely perverts... | |
| Angelo Agostino Scotti (abp. of Thessalonica.) - 1872 - Počet stránok 564
...looking at it as near, more especially if we are resting in the good things of this present life : " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions" (Eccl. xli. 1)! The devil cannot say to us, as he said to Eve : " No, you shall not die the death"... | |
| Richard Henry Cresswell - 1874 - Počet stránok 292
...will all really come. t PBE. II. — Pray for a happy death. I. MEM. — Possessions. INT. — " O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions." — Ecclus. xli. 1. Consider what you will leave: possessions,... | |
| Bruno Vercruysse - 1875 - Počet stránok 654
...us. The first is, attachment to earthly possessions. " 0 death! " says Ecclesiasticus, (41 : 1,) " how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that hath peace in his possessions! " He has laid up these possessions with much labor for many years, and he is to be separated from them... | |
| August Tholuck - 1875 - Počet stránok 572
...with the hand, which will then also uphold us, and thus we muster courage for the final onset. " O death ! how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, to him that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in... | |
| 1913 - Počet stránok 532
...so bitter, that little more so is death,' 2 just as the writer of ' Ecclesiasticus ' exclaims, ' O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that is at peace in his possessions.' (xli. I.) The feeble souls, the first whom Dante saw within the dwelling... | |
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