 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...satisfaction and content. Man can hardly describe how little satisfactory are all the things of this world ; " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing;" something is ever wanting to render our enjoyments full and complete. — See Critical Note (*.) 9.... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 pages
...with victory. XXIII. O Lord God, how ambitious, how covetous of knowledge, is this soul of mine ! " As the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," no more is the mind- of man with understanding; yea, so insatiable is my heart, that the more I know,... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...rivers come, thither they return again, g [8] All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: tne eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. circuits. This is all that was necessary to be said of th« Wind ; for certainly it would have been... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...being accustomed to them, leave him empty, unless he can make some new experiment for happiness : " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," Eccl. i. 8. New circumstances, and new wants, which are not provided for by what we have already, will... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...is soon cut off, and we fly away, ic. 7—10. All things ore full of labour ; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 pages
...yield full satisfaction to the mind. All things, says he, are full of labour: man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing; nor the ear filled with hearing. From this general assertion the royal preacher proceeds to shew, that wisdom, knowledge, and learning... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...the rivers come, tiiither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : bosom of fools. 10 Say not thou, What is the cowe that the former days 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall... | |
 | 1847 - 798 pages
...expression of man, but also the intellectuals and conceptions of man. Solomon, Israel's sage, saith, "The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." The eye may see great things, the ear may hear greater things, and greater than those seen or heard,... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...come, thither they to^ "tm t return again. 8 All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter // ; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. o ch. ai. is. 90 ^ne tjjjug jhat nath been f it is tjiat ^^h 8hali be ; and that which is done in that... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...happeneth even to me, as it happeneth to the fool, and why was I then wise . ' rer. 15. And again, ' the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increnseth knowledge increaseth sorrow,' chap. i. 8.... | |
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All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 
