| John Aikin - 1821 - 364 trang
...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,...to do : and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit ; and there was no profit under the Sun."— Ver. \ 1. " I gat me men-singers and women-singers,... | |
| Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - 1821 - 246 trang
...like him, I got me servants and maidens, and I had silver and gold in abundance : but " when I had looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do, behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun ! — therefore... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 trang
...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 310 trang
...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... | |
| 1858 - 1194 trang
...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... | |
| George Holden - 1822 - 316 trang
...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... | |
| Mrs. Taylor (Ann Martin) - 1822 - 156 trang
...— 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... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 trang
...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... | |
| 1867 - 348 trang
...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... | |
| J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 trang
...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... | |
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