 | Jonathan Birch - 1800 - 122 pages
...glory perish with herself, and let us be conversant with more eternal things. ECCL., chap. 1, v. 2, 14. Vanity of vanities ; saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit.... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...name shall be perpetual. On the vanity anil insufficiency of all worldly possessions. Ecclesiastes. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun : and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1804 - 342 pages
..."our expectations an herring-fishery*." But these, after all, are but new words to the old tune, " Vanity of " vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is " vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which " he taketh under the sun ?" — to which may be answered... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...very apparent. CHAP. I. 1 r I MIE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Je2 Л- rusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher ; vanity of vanities, all [is] vanity, that i», all that relates only to thin life. This is the text of his sermon, and the issue of his... | |
 | Jonathan Edmondson - 1808 - 328 pages
...his word; but Solomon was a royal preacher. He begins this sermon, by informing us, that these are " the words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem." Though seated upon the throne of a great nation, he did not think it beneath him to preach. Happy is... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...since it is both fickle in the continuance, and unsatisfying in the nature and worth thereof. I. 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. I. 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? So far is all the labour... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...most obliged Servant, EZEK. HOPKINS. Oxon,Feb. 1, 1663. THE VANITY OF THE WORLD. ECCLESIASTES I. 2. Vanity of Vanities, saith the Preacher, Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity. 1 HE Preacher here mentioned, is no less a person than Solomon : and this whole book is no other than... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...spirit, causing much grief and sorrowto that heart which is immoderately conversant about them. 1. The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. This is the inscription of the whole book, describing its author by his parentage, dignity, and design... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - 1811 - 550 pages
...experiment ; and this is his verdict upon all earthly enjoyments, after the most impartial trial, " Vanity of vanities," saith the preacher, " vanity of vanities ; all is vanity and vexation of spirit." On thr other hand, the soul may possess some degree of happiness, under all... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - 1811 - 472 pages
...which the Seventy understood it to be, or a singular word which literally signifies " the preacher." " The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher." This, you know, is the title and the beginning of the book... | |
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 
