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...vineyards ; I made me gardens an<f orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit .... I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the province*; I gat me men-singers and women-siegers, 481 and the delights of the so»% a instruments,...

...no prof:t, in terms which show how generally a cultivated taste was diffused among his suhjects. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights...men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." Many other passages of similar import might he qnoted from the sacred writings, and among others, some...

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...and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun, ver. 11. * I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights...men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts, ver. 8. I sought in mine heart t« give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom)...

...therefore, to be prepared on every side." St. Jerome writes to the same effect. Commenting on Eccles. ii. 8, " I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces," he says ; " By the wealth of kings we may understand the doctrines of the philosophers and profane...

...my house ; also I had great possessions, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces d. And whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them. Then I looked on all the works that my hands...

...behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no profit under the Sun."— Ver. 11. " as in his face. Rich was his soul, though his attire...cloth'd his own ambassador. For such, on Earth, his b Ver. 8. " I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom)...

...behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no profit under the Sun."— Ver. \ 1. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights...men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." — Ver. 8. " I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom)...

...silver and gold, the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces ; I got me men and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to...