 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pages
...non est ttmperatia, as he wiHr sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking and hunting, tot solatia in hac tegriorbis calamitate mortalibus... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...gives him ;— for this is his portion. Nay, there is nothing better for a man than that he should cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Methinks the reading of Ecclesiastes should make a Puritan undress his brain, and lay off all those... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...left to he knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not to engage in n-any... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 The re is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...THR temperate utrofmrat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanksgiving,... | |
 | Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 pages
...case, I would say with Solomon, in the literal sense, " There is nothing better for a man than that he " should eat and drink, and that he should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ; and drink thy wine *' with a merry heart."* But God hath... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 pages
...great Solomon's both practice and counsel. There is nothing better, saith he, for a man, than that he should eat and drink ; and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour : this also I saw, that it was from the hand of God ,• for who can eat, or who can hasten hereunto,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. F.ccles. ii. 24 26. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received him,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...Ver. 24. For riches are not for ever, — Keel. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Eccl. iii. 12. I know that there is no good in them,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...may be awake when the body sleeps, Cant. v. 2. 24. ^[ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. In this verse, and to the end of the chapter, is... | |
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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
