 | John Brown - 1850 - 620 pages
...busy, bustling scene is this world of ours ! " All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." l The endlessly diversified forms of human activity, which called forth this emphatic exclamation from... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1850 - 456 pages
...altogether vanity. — Psal xxxix. 5. " VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, all is vanity ! " " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun." Sad,... | |
 | Jacob Merlo Horstius, Jacobus Merlo (Horstius.) - 1850 - 738 pages
...gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of our own' soul ? "What profit is it? For true it is, that the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing, nor the soul with all these earthly things, for almost all things without us are within us only by... | |
 | Abraham Belais - 1850 - 84 pages
...other powerful creations of the universe. 8, 9 " All things are full of labour ;" man cannot utter it ; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that has been, is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1850 - 456 pages
...that hath been is that which shall be, and that which is done is that which shall be done, — still the eye is not^ satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing : and this affords the solution to all the rest. The aspirations of man to a better condition than... | |
 | 1849 - 788 pages
...the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with bearing. » The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1851 - 236 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 ; Eccl. i. 8, no more is the mind of man with understanding : yea, so insatiable is my heart, that... | |
 | Athanase Coquerel - 1851 - 172 pages
...Besides, the reason of man is so constituted that it is always learning, even in spite of itself. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," (Eccl. i. 8,) and we apply our heart " to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1851 - 234 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 ; Eccl. i. 8, no more is the mind of man with understanding: yea, so insatiable is my heart, that the... | |
 | Giovanni Battista PAGANI (D.D.) - 1852 - 290 pages
...speedily away, and not to hasten where joy remains everlastingly. Often reflect upon that proverb, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with Hearing. Study therefore to withdraw your heart from the love of visible things, and to turn yourself to things... | |
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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. 
