 | 1802 - 348 pages
...(hows, would conclude fo : ' Solomon certainly knows beft ; let us alk him, What does he fay ? " Lo! 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 .fpirit, and there was no profit under... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 600 pages
...knowledge itfelf, as a fource of prefent comfort, he affirms the vanity of them all: Ecclef. ii. n. " Then I looked on all the works that " my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had la" bored to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation ^' of fpirit, and there was... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 306 pages
...extort the fame forrowful confeffion from him, which it did from Solomon in the like cafe, — Lo ! 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 ... cl vexation of fpirit and there was no profit... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 pages
...extort the fame forrowful ccni feffion from him, -which it did from Solomon in the like cafe, — Lo ! 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 au4 A 6 vexation of fpirit and there was no profit to... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...and increased more than all thai were before me in "Jerusalem : also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour ; and this was my portion of all my... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...that were before me in Jerusalem : also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired 1 kept not from them; I withheld not mine 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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 470 pages
...will extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon in the like case— Lo ! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do — and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit — and there was... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...greater perfection, than a, person of equal substance but not eyual abilities could have done. LO And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my... | |
 | Ely Bates - 1806 - 445 pages
...from any joy. And what was the result of all this toilsome forecast and provision ? Then, says he, / 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. From such a trial, made with... | |
 | William Penn - 1807 - 394 pages
...that of all sorts : So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem ; and whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them...heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works which my hands had wrought, and behold, All was vanity and vexation of spirit."1 The reason he gives... | |
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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. 
