 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.  American Quarterly Review - Página 15editado por - 1831Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 páginas
...devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostome did, that this sentence, 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... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 páginas
...Whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not mine 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... | |
 | 1825 - 864 páginas
...pleasure, and leisure with repose. What further could he desire? Hear his concluding words. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought ; and on...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 páginas
...whatsoever mine eyes desired 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...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 páginas
...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 laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 páginas
...for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked anner of store : thatws sheep may bring forth thousands and ten th 1 had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation, of spirit, and there ivas no profit... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 páginas
...them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure through the medium of the senses ; and to... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 páginas
...them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure through the medium of the senses ; and to... | |
 | Mrs. Anne Parminter - 1826 - 204 páginas
...longer mourn'd on earth whom he should meet in Heaven. THE VANITY OF WORLDLY PURSUITS. " THEN I LOOKED ON ALL THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS HAD WROUGHT, AND ON...AND BEHOLD ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT." ECCLESIASTES ii. v. 2. RICH, powerful, magnificent and great, In all the gorgeous pomp of regal state,... | |
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