 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 pàgines
...the foundation of sin ? or that his marrying a wife should unkolder his conjunction with Christ? But there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labour, Eccl. ii. 24. And doth not St. Paul call the forbidding of meats... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1848 - 464 pàgines
...it is spoken, want its admirers: it will have the applause of numbers, whose opinion it is, that " there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." 19. He shall go to the... | |
 | Church of England - 1849 - 1236 pàgines
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There it + + Oai he should make his soul enjoy gooc in his labour. This also I saw, tíai it tro* from the hand... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1850 - 496 pàgines
...chalice, as knowing the drink That was poured upon their graves would be cold and without relish. " Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses,...that of Solomon, " there is nothing better for a man thau that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour ; for... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1850 - 494 pàgines
...chalice, as knowing the drink that was poured upon their graves would be cold and without relish. " Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses, and besmear your curled iocks with nard ; for God bids you to remember death :" so the epigrammatist speaks the sense of their... | |
 | 1852 - 650 pàgines
...night.' And he, too, quotes from the same Hebrew fountain of disheartening and melancholy wisdom. ' There is nothing better for a man ' than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy * good in his labour.' — 'You have been advising me for some ' years, sir,' (said... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 if There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he 10 should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.... | |
 | William Rathbone Greg - 1853 - 586 pàgines
...night." And he, too, quotes from the same Hebrew fountain of disheartening and melancholy wisdom. " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour." — " You have been advising me for some years, sir," (said... | |
 | Edward Higginson - 1853 - 548 pàgines
...moment, at least) to a very Epicurean view of life, making him resolve that " There is nothing hetter for a man than that he should eat and drink, And that he shoul 1 make his soul enjoy good in his lahour. This also (he says) I saw, that it was from the hand... | |
 | William Fleetwood (bp. of Ely.) - 1854 - 404 pàgines
...nor unworthy of a wise man, nor yet offensive to God. The Preacher says himself, chap. ii. ver. 24, There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour ; this also I saw, that it was from the hand of God: and, iii.... | |
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There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
