 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...all, here is intellectual enjoyment. How can he be otherwise than happy ? Read what follows : " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...and, behold, ALL WAS VANITY and VEXATION OF SPIRIT." Comment is needless. These confessions speak for themselves. They are but a few of thousands which... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the young trees ; I got me servants," etc. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." There is, however, it must be allowed, occasionally to be found a man of an indolent... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...which has long since vanished, leaving this as a monument, not of its greatness, but of its decay. " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit. Then I 1839.] CULTIVATION OF STRAWBERRIES. 389 saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth... | |
 | 1839 - 1060 pages
...joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then 1 ts. 15 They cried unto them, Depart c vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 f And I turned myself to... | |
 | William Merry - 1839 - 112 pages
...from them, and 1 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,...labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, ALL JVAS VANITY and vexation of spirit, and there teas no profit under the sun.' * Can the force of words... | |
 | 1840 - 452 pages
...delights of the sons of men, musical instruments and that of all sorts ; then I looked on the labour I had laboured to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" (Eccles. ii. 8 — 11). The earliest instance in which we find music connected with... | |
 | Ferdinand freiherr von Geramb - 1840 - 790 pages
...seeking happiness, seek it elsewhere than of God, will make in all ages, if they are sincere : " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." These ponds have been excavated in the bosom of hills of difficult access. There are... | |
 | 1745 - 518 pages
...from any 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,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." (Eccles. ii. 4, 11.) But there will be a profit arising from religious and good works... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...pave the way for their easier entrance into heaven, when they can enjoy this world no longer. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Such is the testimony of Solomon as to this worldly wise, sensual, and ungodly kind... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1844 - 196 pages
...not my heart from any joy. . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought; and on all the labour that I had laboured to do ; and behold...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. KINO SOLOMON. OOR Anne Boleyn had, for some years of her tumultuous life, been " sowing... | |
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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. 
