A paraphrase on ... Ecclesiastes. To which are added the text of the Authorized version, notes, and improvements by N. Higgins1824 |
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Page vi
... human actions , and excellent maxims for the government of life , which are found in the Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and other Books , commonly attributed to Solomon , afford subjects for finer Poems than have , I think , yet appeared in ...
... human actions , and excellent maxims for the government of life , which are found in the Proverbs , Ecclesiastes , and other Books , commonly attributed to Solomon , afford subjects for finer Poems than have , I think , yet appeared in ...
Page xi
... human cognizance . There is sufficient reason to believe , that Solomon had a just sense of his errors , and heartily repented his past follies : nor can there , I think , be a stronger proof of this , than the Book now before us ...
... human cognizance . There is sufficient reason to believe , that Solomon had a just sense of his errors , and heartily repented his past follies : nor can there , I think , be a stronger proof of this , than the Book now before us ...
Page xiii
... human creature , it is certain , naturally aims at Happiness ; but though all apply themselves with equal ar- dour to this desirable end , yet such is the violence of passion , and want of reflection in the generality of mankind , that ...
... human creature , it is certain , naturally aims at Happiness ; but though all apply themselves with equal ar- dour to this desirable end , yet such is the violence of passion , and want of reflection in the generality of mankind , that ...
Page xiv
... human soul , and great day of final Retribution . All these noble and im- portant subjects are treated of , in such a style and manner , as no- thing among the Antients can parallel . We have here given the genuine character of this ...
... human soul , and great day of final Retribution . All these noble and im- portant subjects are treated of , in such a style and manner , as no- thing among the Antients can parallel . We have here given the genuine character of this ...
Page xv
... human heart . It was not his design to drive people out of the world , nor to make them live wretchedly in it , but only that they should think and act like rational creatures , or , in other words , be induced to consult their own ...
... human heart . It was not his design to drive people out of the world , nor to make them live wretchedly in it , but only that they should think and act like rational creatures , or , in other words , be induced to consult their own ...
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apostacy appears beauty Behold better blessings Book book of Ecclesiastes Book of Proverbs Chaldee charms cheerful Chyle dark death discourse divine earth Ecclesiastes ev'n ev'ry evil expression eyes folly fool form'd former ginal give glory goeth Golden Bowl grave hand happiness hath heart Heav'n Hebrew human impious Jaddua Jerusalem Jews judge King knoweth labour latter less lost man's meaning mighty mind mirth nature o'er observed original passage passions pleasures Poem pow'r Preacher precepts Prince Prudence pursuits rage reason reflection Rehoboam reign rendered righteous Royal sacred scene Scripture seems sense shew signifies Silver Cord Solomon soul sweet taste thee thine thing thought throne thyself tion toil Translation Tremellius truth vanity verse versions vice virtue virtuous Vulgate wealth Whate'er wherein whilst whole wicked wind wisdom wise woes words wretched youth
Popular passages
Page 31 - A time to love, and a time to hate ; A time of war, and a time of peace.
Page 74 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit ; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 46 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 77 - There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Page 80 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 46 - KEEP thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools : for they consider not that they do evil.
Page 36 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Page 58 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 106 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Page 47 - When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.