 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 534 pages
...all rny labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that rny hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Thus, the Bible presents a different view of this world from what we find anywhere else, although the... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1834 - 314 pages
...courses. ''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 spirit; and there was no profit under the sun;" and at last he says, ''Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, Fear God and keep his commandments,... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - Conduct of life - 1834 - 204 pages
...joy. Then 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 spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." There was an adaptation in many of these things to impart a certain degree of blameless pleasure, and... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...if ever it sprang out of worldly pleasure: " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and behold, ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION or SPIRIT ; and there was no profit under the sun." And after enumerating a variety of vanities, he... | |
 | Matthew Prior - England - 1835 - 364 pages
...water 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...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,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...pleasure. " Then I looked on all the works that mv hnnds had wrought, and, on the labor that 1 had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of -spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Fourthly, Think how little worldly prosperity has distinguished many of the excellent of the earth.... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Fiction - 1993 - 372 pages
...27) Ecclesiastes one of the most desolate books of the Old Testament in which the speaker says (2:11) 'behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun' 21 (p. 28) Turner's pictures indigo is a deep violet-blue; bluish-grey tones are muted to paler washes... | |
 | Laurence Bergreen - Music - 1996 - 706 pages
.... . . Then 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 spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Such were the sentiments with which Clarence, in his last bitter years, had become familiar. Where... | |
 | Sherry Hutson Camperson - Religion - 1996 - 162 pages
...mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy .... Then I looked . . . and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. ' — Eccles. 2:8-11. Solomon also said, "The eyes of man are never satisfied" (Prov. 27:20). He continues:... | |
 | George Boas - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...labor. Then 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 spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." [Eccl, ii, 4-1 1].103 101 De contempt* mundi, I, xiii [MPL, CCXVII, p. 707]. "*De contemptu mundi,... | |
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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. 
