 | 1867 - 348 pages
...\\hat more mournful testimony can there be than his own ? — " 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." Well might he add in the words of the book which sets forth, it may be hoped, the penitence of his... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...was my portion of all my labour. b [11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had toroyght, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,...vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sim. females who, for their beauty ami gracefulness, were destined to wait at their Prince's table,... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...Eccles. ii. 11. (Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do ; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation...of spirit ; and there was no profit under the sun,) were engraven on the door posts into which you enter, on the tables where you sit, on the dishes out... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...desired, I kept not from them : I withheld not mine heart from any joy, &c. Then I looked on all, &c. and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit: and there was no profit under the sun, &c. I hated all my labour, &c. because I should leave it anto the man that shall be after me : and... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...desired, I kept not from them : I withheld not mine heart from any joy, &c. Then I looked on all, &c. and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit: and there was no profit under the sun, &c. I hated all my labour, &c. because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me : and... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 pages
...heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that 1 had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit! What can the man do that cometh after the king? Therefore I hated life, because the work that is wrought... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...repose. What further could he desire? Hear his concluding words. " 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." Such were the experiments made by one who ran the eager round of business and pleasure, of sensual... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - 1825 - 388 pages
...I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy. 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." There was an adaptation in many of these things to impart a certain degree of blameless pleasure, and... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 pages
...of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. After making many other observations upon human life, and human pursuits, and shewing how utterly insufficient... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that 1 ands in our streets: 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour ; ivas no profit under the sun. 12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly : for... | |
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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. 
