 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 312 pàgines
...to the work of the righteous : 15 I said that this also is vanity. Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry : for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the... | |
 | Enoch Pond - 1881 - 668 pàgines
...it happeneth according to the work of the righteous ; then," says he, " I commended mirth ; because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, drink, and be merry ; for that shall abide with him of his labor all the days of his life " (Chap.... | |
 | 1882 - 584 pàgines
...moves along on the same highway wholly satisfied with the present as was the preacher, — because a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink and to be merry. Below these are the sensual. Their baneful influence has its effect, and is too well understood to... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - 1882 - 216 pàgines
...season, . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh. Eccl. iii. ] , 4. — Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. Eccl. viii. 15. Laughter Condemned. — Woe unto you that laugh now ! Luke vi. 25. — Sorrow is better... | |
 | Berthold Auerbach - 1882 - 816 pàgines
...for me, he understood life, that is why t he says in Ecclesiastes: 'Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.'" "Then the brutes best fulfil their destiny, and the mollusks who consist of a stomach are the most... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 pàgines
...longing for an era of peaceable, prosperous industry and domesticity, and that the Preacher thought a man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and drink and be merry, and live joyfully with the wife whom he loveth all the days of his vanity, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1884 - 72 pàgines
...usual characteristics as given in the book of Ecclesiastes, viii. 15: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry. " IL PENSEROSO The commencement of the poem is similar to that of L' Allegro. Vain deluding joys are... | |
 | Alexander Lawrence Posey - 1993 - 356 pàgines
...morrow we shall die." See also Ecclesiastes 8:15: "Then I commanded mirth, hecause a man hath no hetter thing under the sun. than to eat, and to drink, and to he mern•: for that shall ahide with him of his lahour the days of his life, which God giveth him... | |
 | David Kirby - 1995 - 108 pàgines
...want to jump back into that box immediately. I am an Ecclesiastes 8:15 man myself, wherein it says, "A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry," otherwise he jumpeth into that box feeling a certain chagrin and not the chagrin d'amour, either. Same... | |
 | 1997 - 724 pàgines
...this morning the eighth chapter of Ecclesiastes, the fifteenth verse: "Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry." That there may be other sentiments contained within the covers of the Holy Writ which more aptly conform... | |
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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry... 
