 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 ... - Stran 19avtor: Laurence Sterne - 1780Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Henry Forster Burder - 1825 - 388 strani
...and whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy. 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." There was an adaptation in many of these things to... | |
 | 1825 - 864 strani
...pleasure, and leisure with repose. What further could he desire? Hear his concluding words. " 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." Such were the experiments made by one who ran the eager... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 strani
...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, and on the labour that I laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 strani
...any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then ing all manner of store : thatws sheep may bring forth thousands and ten th 1 had laboured to do : and, behold, all was vanity and vexation, of spirit, and there ivas no profit... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 620 strani
...not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— 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." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure... | |
 | Mrs. Anne Parminter - 1826 - 204 strani
...rise, Nor longer mourn'd on earth whom he should meet in Heaven. THE VANITY OF WORLDLY PURSUITS. " THEN I LOOKED ON ALL THE WORKS THAT MY HANDS HAD WROUGHT,...TO DO : AND BEHOLD ALL WAS VANITY AND VEXATION OF SPIRIT." ECCLESIASTES ii. v. 2. RICH, powerful, magnificent and great, In all the gorgeous pomp of... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1826 - 692 strani
...not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour.— 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." He who formed us made us susceptible of receiving pleasure... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 strani
...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,...labour that I had laboured to do : and, behold, all was u vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun. 12 If And I turned myself to... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1831 - 722 strani
...is ennui. The state of mind is strongly delineated in the language of the sacred writer. — "Hooked 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. And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 strani
...if ever it sprang out of worldly pleasure : " Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, 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." And after enumerating a variety of vanities, he closes... | |
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