 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 552 sidor
...Their joy is generally mixed with a consciousness of its folly and criminality. Hence says Solomon, " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools. This also is vanity." The bursts of joy and laughter in sinners are always attended or followed... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 556 sidor
...Their joy is generally mixed with a consciousness of its folly and criminality. Hence says Solomon, " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools. This also is vanity." The bursts of joy and laughter in sinners are always attended or followed... | |
 | William Morrison Engles - 1845 - 204 sidor
...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool : this also is vanity. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof : and the patient in... | |
 | 1845 - 702 sidor
...mirth. 5 It is better to hear the rehuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools : 6 For 38 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons, and my daughters ? thou : this also in vanity. 7 1[ Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad ; and a gift destroycth the heart.... | |
 | 1829 - 474 sidor
...wisest of men differed from you both : " I said of laughter, it is mad; and of mirth, what doeth it?" " As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool;" noisy, sparkling, and worthless. St. Paul, too, cautions us against " foolish talking and... | |
 | William Jacobson (bp. of Chester.) - 1846 - 382 sidor
...of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.' I need not, of course, stop to remind you of the sense u Eccles. ii. 1, 2. 1 Prov. xiv. 13. in which... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1846 - 328 sidor
...the house of mirth. It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than to hear the song of fools ; for as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool," Eccl. ii. 2 ; vii. 2-6. All the pleasure of fleshly things is but like the scratching of a... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 sidor
...they must pay for it. 3 than for a man to hear the song of AM 3027. fools: 6 d For as the 2crackling ? ? =#@$@%@&@u& ? : this also is vanity. 7 If Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad ; ' and a gift destroyed) the heart.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1846 - 370 sidor
...house of mirth. It is better to bear the rebuke of the wise, than to bear the song of fools ; for a* the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool," Eccl il 2 ; vii. 2-6. All the pleasure of fleshly things is but like the scratching of a man... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1847 - 362 sidor
...description of those joys which are found in the house of mirth, at the sixth verse of this chapter : " For, as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool." The joy of the house of feasting is like " the crackling of thorns" — ablaze! a momentary blaze !... | |
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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. 
