...5. " I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...spirit ; and there was no profit under the Sun."— Ver. \ 1. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical...

...like him, I got me servants and maidens, and I had silver and gold in abundance : but " when I had looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do, behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun ! — therefore...

...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 do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there...

...fruits. Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees. Ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Ver. 11. I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments,...

...the rainbow ; but they are dispersed by the lightest breeze. " I looked," says the royal Preacher, " on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." We thirst to quaff not only a pure and crystal stream of bliss, but an ever-running one. It must flow,...

...this was my portion, the only thing that accrued to me, of all my labour, 1 l*that I looked and mused on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do in expectation of obtaining happiness from luxury and selfindulgence; and, behold, all [was] vanity...

...— like him, I got me servants and maidens, and I had silver and gold in abundance: bHit "when I had looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, behold all was^anity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit...

...extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon, in the like саз«, — Lo! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on, the labour that I 'bad laboured to do — and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit — and there ww no profit...

...was my portion of all my labour. b [11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had toroyght, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and,...vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sim. females who, for their beauty ami gracefulness, were destined to wait at their Prince's table,...

...all other 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...