| Matthew Prior - 1718 - 566 pages
...Wiie? Then I faid in my Heart, that this alfo is Vanity. Veri! ij. Therefore I hated Life, becauíe the Work that is wrought under the Sun is grievous unto me. Chap. II. Veri! 17. Dead Flies caufe the Oyntment to fend forth a (linking Savour : io doth the little... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...misery, as it is the heighth of absurdity. ' It is not in any of these senses that the wise man saith, I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun. is grievous unto me. He would have us understand, that the earth hath more thorns than flowers — that our condition here,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...extraordinary character 17 that is talked of for ages. Therefore so far from finding satisfaction, I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under...unto me : for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. . 18 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun : because I should leave it unto the... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...Therefore so far from fading satisfaction, I hated life ; because the work that is wrought underthe sun [is] grievous unto me : for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. 18 Yea, I hated all rhy labour which I had taken under the sun : because I should leave it unto the... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...judgment, that wickedness was there chap. iii. 1C. We will not finish this disagreeable picture. / hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me. Such is the idea the wise man gives us of the world. Yet these vain and precarious objects, this world... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...day* days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man ? as the fool. 1 7 Therefore I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under...unto me : for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. 18 ^f Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun : because I should leave it unto the... | |
| John Aikin - 1807 - 692 pages
...this is an accident, not the essence of empty-mindedness. When the author of Ecclesiastes writes, " The work that is wrought under the sun is grievous...unto me, for all is vanity and vexation of spirit," he describes a feeling of annoy by the word vanity. Now it is necessarily characteristic of emptiness... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...pain, as the fool? Is there not the same act, and manner of dissolution of both ? II. 17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me. II. 18, 19 Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...pain, as the fool? Is there not the same act, and manner of dissolution of both ? II. 17 Therefore I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me. I was therefore utterly distasted with the present life ; since it yielded nothing but anguish and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...why was I then more wise ? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity." Ver. 15. ' Therefore 1 hated life, because the work that is wrought under the Sun is grievous unto me." Ch. ii. ver. 21. ' Dead flies cause the ointment to send forth a stinking savour: so dotli a little... | |
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