 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pągines
...her 10 way to happiness is to correct a complaining temper. Say not thou, What is [the cause] that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this ; час do not know that they were better ; there have been good and liad in all ages. We read ntuch... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pągines
...it. VII. 9 He not hasty in the spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. VII. 10 Say not thou, What is the cause why the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. Be not thou discontentedly querulous at the present condition ; as,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 626 pągines
...do you slander the time ? Solomon was a wise man, and he says, Say not thou, What is ike cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this: this is but a needless rigour: this is but an envious calumny : the generation were not untoward, if... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 632 pągines
...do you slander the time ? Solomon was a wise man, and he says, Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this: this is but a needless rigour: this is but an envious calumny: the generation were not untoward, if... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pągines
...again, as wise men are when they chance to be •incensed. Ver. 10. Say not thou, What it tie cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this,] It is wisdom also to correct in ourselves that complaining humqur, which is apt to be ever finding... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1809 - 238 pągines
...of all good knows what is best for us, and acts accordingly. " Say not thou, what is the cavse that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." " Consider the work of God, for who ran make that straight which he has made crooked?" 148 cc In the... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1809 - 332 pągines
...far certainly they have forgotten the caution of Solomon ; " Say not thou, What is the cause that " the former days were better than these ? For " thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this." A mistake we would willingly avoid. Such complaints, when indulged indiscriminately, are either the... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pągines
...spirit to be angry : for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. 10 bay not thou, What is the cause that the LORD. PSAL. CII. 1 The firofihet in Ms 11 If Wisdom is good with an inheritance : and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pągines
...mourning : but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these ? for thou. dost not inquire wisely concerning this. 1 1 Wisdom is good with an inheritance ; 12 But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth... | |
 | 1815 - 404 pągines
...in dwelling with a sort of melaneholy pleasure on joys that are past. "Say not," says Solomon, "that the former days were better than these, for thou dost not inquire wisely eoneerning this." We speak nut now of that lux* ury of grief, or those reeolleetions wnieh sooth the... | |
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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. 
