 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.  The North American Review - Page 1571880Full view - About this book
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon, in the like 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... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...[11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had toroyght, 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 sim. females who, for their beauty ami gracefulness, were destined to wait at their Prince's table,... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...desired, I kept not from them : I withheld not mine heart from any joy, &c. Then I looked on all, &c. and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit: and there was no profit under the sun, &c. I hated all my labour, &c. because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me : and... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...desired, I kept not from them : I withheld not mine heart from any joy, &c. Then I looked on all, &c. and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit: and there was no profit under the sun, &c. I hated all my labour, &c. because I should leave it anto the man that shall be after me : and... | |
 | Christian life - 1867 - 348 pages
...Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." \\hat more mournful testimony can there be than his own ? — " 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... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostome did, that this sentence, Eccles. ii. 11. (Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do ; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 pages
...men. Whatsoever mine eyes desired, I 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 1 had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit! What can the man... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then ing all manner of store : thatws sheep may bring forth thousand labour that 1 had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation, of spirit, and there ivas... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...pleasure, and leisure with repose. What further could he desire? Hear his concluding words. " 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... | |
 | Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...and whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them ; I withheld not my 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 spirit, and there was... | |
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