 | Mrs. Anne Parminter - 1826 - 204 pages
...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 ON THE LABOUR THAT I HAD LABOURED TO DO : AND BEHOLD ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT." ECCLESIASTES ii. v. 2. RICH, powerful, magnificent and... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 pages
...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,...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." He who formed... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1831 - 722 pages
...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 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. And I turned myself... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1827 - 238 pages
...labour ; and this was my portion of all my iabour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands liad wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and behold, all was vanity arid vexation of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun.—Then I saw... | |
 | 1827 - 1446 pages
...in all my labour : and this was ereaseth knowledge increaseth my portion of all my labour. 11 Then 1 looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on Die labour tnt urorfu'ofplfnntr«. 12 Thtmfh that I had laboured to do: and, Ни Mi> i* brtter than... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...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,...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." Fourthly, Think... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 ib 1 had laboured^ to do: and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and tlure teas no profit... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1830 - 306 pages
...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,...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. — Then I saw... | |
 | 1831 - 676 pages
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then 1 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 teas no profit under the sun. 12 And I turned... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1831 - 332 pages
...the pursuits and labours which engage us day by day, of which Solomon says, / looked on all the works my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do, — these are things seen. Every intellectual improvement, the stores of human learning and wisdom,... | |
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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. 
