 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pàgines
...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,...labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, all WES vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." After making many other... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pàgines
...all my labour : and ihis was my portion of all my labour. 11 Then I looked on all the works that tny es of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they man vanity and vexation of spirit, and /here -aias no profit under the sun. 12 And I turned myself... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 pàgines
...Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that briugeth 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 1. ! I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1810 - 342 pàgines
...other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostom did, that that sentence, Eccl. ii 11. (' Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun,') vv.ere engraven on the door-posts into which you enter, on the tables where you sit, on the dishes... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 pàgines
...therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Ver. 6. ' Then I looked on all the works that my hands lit.! wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to...was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was 110 profit under llie bun." Ver. 1 1. ' I gat me men-singers and women singers, and the delights of... | |
 | Thomas Fairfax (3rd baron.) - 1810 - 234 pàgines
...but, unto thy name give we the praife. But, as for myfelf, and what I have done, I fay (with Solomon) I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, All was vanity, and vexation of fpirit. For, there is no... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pàgines
...taken from the manner of dividing inheritances, Numb, xviii. 20; or spoils, 1 Sam. xxx. 24. 1 1 . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there tt-ap no profit under the sun. " Then I looked on all," &c. After all this, I turned and looked back,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1813 - 280 pàgines
...extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon in the like case, — " Lo ! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...that I had laboured to do, — and behold all was vaniiy and vexation of spirit, — and there was no profit to me under the sun." To inflame this account... | |
 | William Playfair - 1814 - 538 pàgines
...the wisest of men—- " I made me great works I builded me houses — I planted me vineyards: then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit; and there was no profit under the sun." GUSTAVUS IV. EX-KING OF SWEDEN. THIS prince is one of those unfortunate men who was rained by following... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pàgines
...joy : for my heart , rejoiced « $1 -ffliy labour ; and this was my portion of all my labour. Then 1 looked on all the. works that my hands had wrought,...the.re was no profit under the sun." (Eccles. ii. 1.) This was Solomon's experience : and say, ye children of this world, ye lovers of pleasure, say... | |
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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. 
