 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...(hows, would conclude fo : ' Solomon certainly knows beft ; let us alk him, What does he fay ? " Lo! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...laboured to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of .fpirit, and there was no profit under the fun" Well, gentlemen, you, I mean who think that if if you... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour ; and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. After making many other observations upon human life, and human pursuits, and shewing how utterly insufficient... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 pages
...extort the fame forrowful ccni feffion from him, -which it did from Solomon in the like cafe, — Lo ! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...that I had laboured to do and behold all was vanity au4 A 6 vexation of fpirit and there was no profit to me under the fun. To inflame this account the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 306 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,...I had laboured to do • and behold all was vanity ... cl vexation of fpirit and there was no profit to me under the fun. To inflame this account the... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...of spirit, and th-ere was no profit under the sun, What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away,... | |
 | Ely Bates - Christian ethics - 1806 - 445 pages
...from any joy. And what was the result of all this toilsome forecast and provision ? Then, says he, / looked on all the works that my hands had "wrought,...and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit. From such a trial, made with every possible advantage, we may therefore conclude with certainty, that... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1806 - 340 pages
...not from them : I -withheld not my heart from any joy. 4. ...Then I looked on all the works that tny hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all WAS vanity and vexation ot fpirit, and there was no profit under the fun. And I turned myfelf to behold wifdom and Jolly. Then... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...ii. 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, See. to ver. 10. Ver. 11. I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought.,...vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit. Eccl. ii. 22. For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his spirit wherein he hath... | |
 | Georg Joachim Zollikofer - Dignity - 1807 - 682 pages
...I withheld not my heart from any joy." But hear likewife what judgment he paffes upon all this : ** Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought,...to do ; and behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there was no profit under the fun." This is what he alfo affirms in our text, and indeed... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...from 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,...laboured to do : and behold, all was vanity and vexation pf spirit, aud there was no profit under the sun. l'.Mf And 1 turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness,... | |
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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. 
