 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1821 - 364 pages
...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 pages
...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) - Children - 1821 - 246 pages
...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 - Classical poetry - 1822 - 310 pages
...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,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1858 - 1194 pages
...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 - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...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) - American fiction - 1822 - 156 pages
...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 pages
...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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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. 
