 | Nathan Covington Brooks - Classical education - 1840 - 56 pages
...the mourners go about the streets. Or ever the silver chord 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 earth, as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...mourners stand round the street ; 8 Ere the silver thread shrink, and the golden bowl be broken, Ere the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." Sometimes this figure appears in the form of a fable with a moral, a form to which, when it occurs... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...mourners stand round the street ; « Ere the silver thread shrink, and the golden howl be broken, Ere the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." Sometimes this figure appears in the form of a fable with a moral, a form to which, when it occurs... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Bible - 1840 - 468 pages
...mourners stand round the street; < Ere the silver thread shrink, and the golden bowl be broken, Ere the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern." Sometimes this figure appears in the form of a fable with a moral, a form to which, when it occurs... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...chiefly alluded to in Book III. ' 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."— ECCLKS. ckap. xii. ver. 6 • The Sun ariseth, and the Sun goeth down, and hastclh to his place where... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Legal stories - 1841 - 430 pages
...heard by every one around her — " 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... | |
 | James Shane - Religion - 2002 - 710 pages
...the mourners go about the streets: 6 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. 17 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | Steve McKenzly - Religion - 2002 - 138 pages
...the silver cord. ECCLESIASTES 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden howl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | David Deborah, Sathayananda Ji - 2004 - 250 pages
...mourners go about the streets: 6. 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. 7. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave... | |
 | John Henry Newman, Saint John Henry Newman - Spiritual life - 2003 - 212 pages
...are brought low, and desire fails: 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." (Eccles 12: i, 34, 6) We leave the goods of earth before they leave us. Let us not shrink from this... | |
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... 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. 
