 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 lehte
...of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. After making many other observations upon human life, and human pursuits, and shewing how utterly insufficient... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 lehte
...kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure through the medium of the senses ; and to... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 lehte
...kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure through the medium of the senses ; and to... | |
 | Mrs. Anne Parminter - 1826 - 204 lehte
...rise, Nor longer mourn'd on earth whom he should meet in Heaven. THE VANITY OF WORLDLY PURSUITS. " THEN I LOOKED ON ALL THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS HAD WROUGHT,...AND BEHOLD ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT." ECCLESIASTES ii. v. 2. RICH, powerful, magnificent and great, In all the gorgeous pomp of regal state,... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 lehte
...from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was u vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 If And I turned myself to... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1831 - 722 lehte
...is ennui. The state of mind is strongly delineated in the language of the sacred writer. — "Hooked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly ; for what can the man do that cometh... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 lehte
...if ever it sprang out of worldly pleasure : " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labour that I had laboured to do ; and...OF SPIRIT ; and there was no profit under the sun." And after enumerating a variety of vanities, he closes his book with these important words : " Let... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 lehte
...your senses are declining ; and desire fails : and the days are come wherein you have no pleasure. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Fourthly, Think how little worldly prosperity has distinguished many of the excellent of the earth.... | |
 | 1829 - 986 lehte
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 | Jane Taylor - 1830 - 306 lehte
...heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced in all my labour ; and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit ; and there was no profit under the sun. — Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. — Her ways are ways... | |
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Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 
