 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.  The Works of Laurence Sterne ... - Page 19by Laurence Sterne - 1780Full view - About this book
 | Laurence Sterne - Sermons, English - 1766 - 326 pages
...will extort the fame forrowful confeffion from him, which it did from Solomon in the like cafe—Lo! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do—and behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit—and there was no profit to me under the fun.... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Apologetics - 1768 - 360 pages
...vanity of them all : Ecclef. iL ii." Then 1 looked on ail the works " that my hands had wrought, snd on the labour " that I had laboured to do : and behold,...vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there *' was no prcfit under the fun." And towards the clofe-of the fame book, ch xii. 12. he fays, " And further,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1775 - 246 pages
...extort the fame forrowful confeffion from him, which it did from Solomon in the like cafe, — Lo ! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...fpirit — and there was no profit to me under the fun. C4 To To inflame this account the more— 'twill be no miracle, if upon calling it up he has gone farther... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1777 - 252 pages
...ver. j. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees, vcr. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and OR the labour that I had laboured to do, and behold, all was vanity and vexition of fpirit ; and there... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 318 pages
...Verf. ;. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees. Verf. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity, and vexation of fpirit ; and there was no profit under the fun. Verf. n. I gat me men-fingers and women-fingers, and the delights of the fons of men,... | |
 | Thomas Fairfax Baron Fairfax - Great Britain - 1786 - 492 pages
...but unto thy name give \ve the praifci But as for myfelf and what I have done, I fay with Solomon, I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...and behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit. I?or there is no remembrance of the wife more than the fool for ever, feeing that which no\v is, in... | |
 | William Jabet - Sermons, English - 1787 - 348 pages
...his, own Conclufion. Thsn I looked looked on all the Works that mine Hands had wrought, and on all the Labour that I had laboured to do ; and behold, all -was Vanity and Vexation of Spirit ; and there was no Profit under the Sun. A moft mortifying Conclufion indeed, though we all... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...any joy; for; my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there was no profit under the fun. 12 fl And I turned myfell to behold wifdom, and madnefs, and folly ; for what can the... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 326 pages
...I made me pools of water, to water therewith the " wood that bringeth forth trees." Ver. 6. " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had " wrought, and on the labour that I had labouredtodo : " And behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit ; " and there was no profit under... | |
 | William Belsham - 1791 - 312 pages
...men : whatsoever " mine eyes defired, I kept not from them ; I " withheld not my heart from any joy : and " behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit, " and there was no profit under the fun! " Therefore I hated life, and I praifed the " dead which are already dead, more than... | |
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