... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it. A Commentary on Ecclesiastes - Pàgina 84per Thomas Pelham Dale - 1873 - 92 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| British poets - 1822 - 310 pàgines
...smiles, and looks, deceitful all, and vain. POWER. BOOK III. thief.!! alltrtirtJ to in tl)is BOOK. OR ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Eccles. chap. xii. ver. 6. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pàgines
...servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. £ccles. xii. 6, 7. Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 716 pàgines
...burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 734 pàgines
...home, and the mourners go about the streets : Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl he broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.... | |
| Henry Parmele - 1823 - 122 pàgines
...and desire shall fail ; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern. " Then ;hall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shal... | |
| James Ellice - 1824 - 92 pàgines
...asserts the immortality of the soul : Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit unto God that gave it. The spirit... | |
| Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - 654 pàgines
...Shall he free his soul from the power of the grave ? Ps. Ixxxix. And to speak the language of Solomon, Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel be broken at the cistern : that is to say the back-bone, where marrow is as white as silver, be loosed... | |
| 1824 - 412 pàgines
...signify the termination of the functions of the brain : " In that very day his thoughts perish." — " Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." This expression refers to the circulation of the blood ; which was not unknown to the ancients, though... | |
| Joseph Benson - 1824 - 216 pàgines
...powers, and describes the chief organs employed in the production and the circulation of the blood. " Or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." * The wonderful provision made for preparing and circulating the vital fluid, is at death entirely... | |
| J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pàgines
...overstretch'd, No longer can with fresh recruit, supply Th' exhausted spirits. 7 Gasping Nature sighs be broken, ^ or the pitcher be broken at the fountain,^ or the that by the Silver Cord is meant the Spinal Marrow, with the various nerves thence derived, whose ramifications,... | |
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