| 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
...amiable, and living in the world delicious : but of the second the wise man saith, / hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me. To which of the two periods doth the age in which we live belong ? Judge by the description given by... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...character 17 that is talked of for ages. Therefore so far from finding satisfaction, I hated life ; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous...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 - 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 - 1806 - 406 pages
...height of absurdity. It is not in any of these senses that the wise man saith, / 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,... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...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 the sun is grievous...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... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...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... | |
| Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...life or honour, thereibre, but in the fear of the Lord. 17. Therefore I hated life ; because the work wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. This is the effect which this great vanity of the most excellent human endowments produced in the heart... | |
| William Taylor - 1813 - 356 pages
...appreciating the nature 01 the' effort; but thia is an accident, not the essence of emptv-intiidedness. When the author of Ecclesiastes writes, * The work...emptiness of mind to be very liable- to tedium. That yawmng craving appetite for amusement, which turns toward every one and every thing for gratilination,... | |
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