 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...satisfaction. And then he sums up the matter in a method most instructive to a votary of the world : " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | David Marks - 1831 - 410 pages
...sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." And in the eleventh verse, he says: " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought — and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit." And though the Lord suffered the practice for a time,... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Ecclei. i. 13, 14. 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. Eccles. ii. II,... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1832 - 416 pages
...the joys of his mortality, came at last to this melancholy conclusion : " Then I looked," says he, "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." Would not all... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...multiplication of the thoughts of the mind upon the subject propounded, so the scripture expresseth it, " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought;" and in the next verse, " I returned to see," Eccl. 2:11,12. He looked upon, and considered his works, and... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 11 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. %12 And I turned... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - 1834 - 204 pages
...:— and whatsoever mine tyei desired I kept not from thrrn ; I withheld not my heart from any joy. Then 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 no... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 pages
...all rny labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that rny 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." Thus, the Bible... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1834 - 314 pages
...elegantly does the Royal Preacher, in his book of repentance, describe the vanity of all human courses. ''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 no... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 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.' Eccles. i. 17; ii. 1—11. " What can we do after this... | |
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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. 
