| 1819 - 488 páginas
...kept not from them ; I withheld not mine heart from any joy. 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 spiritd. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands bad od? Who for thy table feeils the wanton fawn, For...lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Ver. 11. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 364 páginas
...therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...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... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 páginas
...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 was no profit under the sun.' And this man, who had but to wish, and the means of enjoyment were collected around him, who but stretched... | |
| Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - 1821 - 246 páginas
...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 páginas
...to water therewith the wood that bnngeth forth trees. Ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...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,... | |
| 1858 - 1194 páginas
...dispersed by the lightest breeze. " I looked," says the royal Preacher, " on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...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,... | |
| George Holden - 1822 - 316 páginas
...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... | |
| Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - 1822 - 156 páginas
...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 under the sun! — therefore I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me, for... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 páginas
...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 to me under the sun. To inflame this account the- more — 'twill be no mirade, if upon... | |
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