...nations of Europe. Then, indeed, he will be ready to say with Solomon, " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ... and there is no new thing under the sun." 1 The literature of the Old Persian is very limited. It consists of the inscriptions of the...

...medicine, but its literature is certainly an excellent illustration of the maxim "The thing which has been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun." The record of the researches, experiences, and speculations relating to medical science during...

...known in their college days was absolutely immaterial. Their motto was, " The thing that hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun." At least, if there was a brand new thing under the sun, ostrichlike they were determined...

...— a canny, calculating, faithless materialism variously disguised. " The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun." Elaborate, and not over-scrupulous organisation is apt to be true to type, — in this age...

...laboured to do ; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; for the thing that hath been, it is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. Thus the nightmare of eternal recurrence obsessed the Preacher, till he found that much wisdom...

...historian's first and last wisdom was expressed by the words of the Preacher, "That which hath been is that which shall be; ... and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there a thing whereof it may be said. See, this is new ? it hath been long ago, in the...

...cometh, and the earth abideth for ever. . . . All things are full of weariness, that which hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun.' The music is full of short broken phrases and unquiet changes of tonality: it is the very...

...the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. . . . "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; ... and there is no new thing under the sun. . . . "I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this...

...the wisest of men, but even by divine inspiration; where Solomon tells us, "The thing that has been, is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It has been already of old time...

...authority; they carry compulsion. Only the outside of life changes. Within, the thing that hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. The Old Testament is the great book of human experience, and the greatest experience in it...