Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Volume 33

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American Philosophical Society, 1894
 

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Page 329 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 321 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Page 329 - Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Page 327 - There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
Page 324 - THERE is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men : A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Page 136 - ... the science of the laws which govern man in his efforts to secure for himself the highest individuality, and the greatest power of association with his fellow-men.
Page 131 - The General Assembly shall not pass any local or special law exempting property from taxation." It furthermore, Art. ix, See. 1, expressly declares "that all taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax...
Page 331 - before it is charmed, then there is no advantage for the charmer." 12 The words from the mouth of a wise man are gracious, but the lips of a fool consume him. 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is folly, but the end of his speaking is evil madness.
Page 323 - There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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