...women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there...

...Ver. 5. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bnngeth forth trees. Ver. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. Ver. 11. I gat me men-singers, and women-singers, and...

...the rainbow ; but they are dispersed by the lightest breeze. " I looked," says the royal Preacher, " on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on...to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." We thirst to quaff not only a pure and crystal stream...

...this was my portion, the only thing that accrued to me, of all my labour, 1 l*that I looked and mused on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do in expectation of obtaining happiness from luxury and selfindulgence; and, behold, all [was] vanity...

...— like him, I got me servants and maidens, and I had silver and gold in abundance: bHit "when I had looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, behold all was^anity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit...

...extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon, in the like саз«, — Lo! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on, the labour that I 'bad laboured to do — and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit — and there ww no profit...

...Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." \\hat more mournful testimony can there be than his own ? — " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." Well might he add in the words of the book which sets...

...was my portion of all my labour. b [11] Then I looked on all the works that my hands had toroyght, 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 sim. females who, for their beauty ami gracefulness, were...

...other devices. For a close, I wish, as once Chrysostome did, that this sentence, Eccles. ii. 11. (Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I laboured to do ; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no profit under...

...men. Whatsoever mine eyes desired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not mine heart from any joy. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that 1 had laboured to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit! What can the man do that cometh...