| Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pàgines
...ttmperatia, as he wiHr sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking and hunting, tot solatia in hac tegriorbis calamitate mortalibus... | |
| 1806 - 504 pàgines
...gives him ;— for this is his portion. Nay, there is nothing better for a man than that he should cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Methinks the reading of Ecclesiastes should make a Puritan undress his brain, and lay off all those... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pàgines
...knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not to engage in n-any... | |
| 1807 - 570 pàgines
...rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 The re is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pàgines
...utrofmrat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanksgiving,... | |
| Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 pàgines
...say with Solomon, in the literal sense, " There is nothing better for a man than that he " should eat and drink, and that he should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ; and drink thy wine *' with a merry heart."* But God hath... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pàgines
...my earthly labours and endeavours. II. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since the life of man is attended with M> much sorrow and care... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pàgines
...is the gift of God. F.ccles. ii. 24 26. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received him,... | |
| Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pàgines
...riches are not for ever, — Keel. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Eccl. iii. 12. I know that there is no good in them,... | |
| Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pàgines
...when the body sleeps, Cant. v. 2. 24. ^[ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. In this verse, and to the end of the chapter, is... | |
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