 | John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - New Jersey - 1844 - 546 pages
...this life 25th of October, 1820. Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets : or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cis. tern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God... | |
 | 1845 - 584 pages
...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." Jeremiah has justly been designated, the weeping prophet. In the book of his prophecy, lamenting the... | |
 | Prayers - 1845 - 362 pages
...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."... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Bible - 1846 - 1102 pages
...toward it, and every day nearer to it. To AM3027. 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, _ ! — ' — - seek them, and shalt not find them, even 8 them that...against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of n earth as it was : •" and the spirit shall return unto God h who gave it. 8 T ' Vanity of vanities,... | |
 | Charles Whitlock Moore - 1846 - 134 pages
...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."... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...figure similar to that which modern writers use, when they say, " the lamp of life is extinguished. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern: Th»n shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it"... | |
 | Robert Swain - 1846 - 278 pages
...of a few friends, the body was committed to the earth, after reading these words over his graAre : " 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 shall the dust return to the earth, whence it came, And the spirit... | |
 | Elizabeth Furlong Shipton Harris, Companion traveller - Anglo-Catholicism in literature - 1847 - 340 pages
...sun or the light, or the moon or the stars, be not darkened ; nor the clouds return after the rain : Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern : Use these days, for they are precious, and may be few, and when the Book of your Faith is taken out... | |
 | Robert Swain - Chronically ill children - 1847 - 290 pages
...of a few friends, the body was committed to the earth, after reading these words over his grave : " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, Or the golden bowl...at the fountain, Or the wheel broken at the cistern ; Then shall the dust return to the earth, whence it came, And the spirit to God who gave it." And... | |
 | 1847 - 918 pages
...arrayed in those robes of majesty in which he now beheld the high priest habited. THE SILVER CORD. " Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl...be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at tne cistern."—Eccles. xii. 6. SUPPOSE WE ADOPT the common explanation of the " silver cord" as signifying... | |
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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. 
