 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 pages
...wine ? ver. 15. And again, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow, chap, i. 8. 18. So again, in another place, after he had proposed some rules for the government of... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. For in much •wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Because no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Though a man labour... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Satire, English - 1807 - 330 pages
...Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMEHS AND STARGAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears his thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - Fools and jesters - 1807 - 356 pages
...Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STAB GAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears his thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 602 pages
...happiness? " Alas! if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise !" or, to quote from a higher authority : " In much wisdom, is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." By way of finishing this fine piece of argumentation, the critics say : " We have been a little alarmed... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 462 pages
...? ver. J 5. And again, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing ; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorroWi chap. i. 8, 18. So again, in another place, after he had proposed some rules for the government... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - Christianity - 1815 - 364 pages
...remorse. Another engages in more refined and intellectual pursuits; but these do not satisfy, for he finds that "in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." A third enters into business, occupies himself with eagerness in the bustle of life and in the search... | |
 | Thomas Balguy - Christian ethics - 1817 - 366 pages
...fame was in all nations round about f," he was forced at last to come to this melancholy conclusion, That " in much wisdom is much " grief; and he that increaseth knowledge " increaseth sorrow." Different situations and circumstances expose men to different temptations. There is indeed scarce... | |
 | George Burder - 1817 - 366 pages
...Knowledge, in general, is grateful to the mind ; and yet some kinds of knowledge are painful. Solomon says, "In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccl. i. 1.8. There must be a great deal of pains to get it, and a great deal of care to keep it; the... | |
 | 1831 - 854 pages
...direction of the Spirit of all truth, should have recorded the VOL. XIII. NO. V. QQ 294 A Sermon. opinion that " in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow," apparently in contradiction to nature, Revelation, and himself, is the paradox which I will now attempt... | |
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in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow 
