| Jonathan Birch - Emblems - 1800 - 122 pages
...ECCL., chap. 1, v. 2, 14. Vanity of vanities ; saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. I have seen all the works that are done under the...sun; and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit. LUKE, chap. 9, v. 25. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or... | |
| David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...knowledge, and learning, could not make him happy. / the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem : and I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath GOD given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 1 have seen all the... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...is also vanity. Seeing there be many things that vOL. i. u increase vanity, what is man the better ? I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. For in much wisdom... | |
| John Fletcher - Salvation - 1804 - 248 pages
...the case and the glass. If they will not believe me, let them believe him, who " gave his heart to search out by wisdom, concerning all things that are done under heaven," and who, touching upon our question, says : " As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...in Jerusalem^ I was in circumstance* which gave me every advantage for pursuing knowledge : 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all [things] that are done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith ; he must search for... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...errat labour, and ob 14 tain it by slow degrees. 1 have seen all the works of this kind that are clone under the sun ; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit ; ivc know little, and that little is not of much service 15 to us. [That which is] crooked cannot... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...with those that shall come after. 12 ^f I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem ; " 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven : this sorq travail hath Cod given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. 14 I have seen all... | |
| Ely Bates - Country life - 1807 - 426 pages
...to seek and search out concerning all things that are done under heaven, thus declares the result : I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and be* hold all is vanity and vexation of spirit ; that which is crooked cannot be made straight, and... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 488 pages
...ii. 15. vi/8. ii. 16. i. 8. vii. 25. i. 18. Lastly, not in any human thing : for / have considered all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. EC. i. 14. SECT. 6. /-Life, Wherein Felicity is : \ 1. In approving ourselves < /"Favour, to God. From... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 504 pages
...ii. 15. vi. 8. ii. 16: i. 8. vii. 25. i. 18. Lastly, not in any human thing : for / have considered all the works that are done under the sun-, and, behold, all ù vanity and vexation of spirit. EC. i. 14. SECT. 6. /-Life, Wherein Felicity is : \ 1. In approving... | |
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