Retrospection: A TaleCollins and Croft, 1822 - 173 pages |
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Page 81 - 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.
Page 113 - he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh a. city," the rigid discipline and government, to which Mr.
Page 81 - Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
Page 96 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered with corn: They shout for joy; they also sing.
Page 99 - This ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
Page 81 - A while thy fury check, thy storms confine ; No trivial blast impels the passive air, But brews a tempest in a breast like mine. What bands of black ideas spread their wings! The peaceful regions of content invade ! With deadly poison taint the crystal springs ! With noisome vapour blast the verdant shade...
Page 81 - For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been already forgotten.
Page 132 - Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it : except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen waketh but in vain.
Page 37 - Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Page 81 - I made me gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...