 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pages
...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 labour that I had laboured to do, — and behold all was vaniiy and vexation of spirit, — and there was no profit to me under the sun." To inflame this account... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pages
...great works I builded me houses — I planted me vineyards: then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun." GUSTAVUS IV. EX-KING OF SWEDEN. THIS prince is one of those unfortunate men who was rained by following... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...$1 -ffliy labour ; and this was my portion of all my labour. Then 1 looked on all the. works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour .that I had laboured...of spirit, and the.re was no profit under the sun." (Eccles. ii. 1.) This was Solomon's experience : and say, ye children of this world, ye lovers of pleasure,... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pages
...human invention." September 7. ECCLES. ii. 11. Then I looked on all the works that my hand had wrough , and on the labour that I had laboured to do , and...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. QUEEN ELIZABETH born at Greenwich, 1533. From the closing scene of this princess's life, we may see... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1815 - 478 pages
...But as for my-self, and what I have done, I may say with Solomon, 1 looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...and behold ! all was vanity and vexation of spirit. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever, seeing that which now is, in... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 572 pages
...miseries that troubled him afterwards ; and then hs plainly expresses his repentance, •when he says, All was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was .no profit under the, xun, ver. 1 1. as though be should say, I turned from God to the creature, to see what happiness I... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do i and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 And... | |
 | 1815 - 974 pages
...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 dp : and, behoH, ull taai vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there -was no profit under the fun. It... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 466 pages
...water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees, ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun, rer. 11. I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments,... | |
 | 1819 - 948 pages
...all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my rmies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may...those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, 12 And 1 turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly : for what can the man do that cometh... | |
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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. 
