 | 1611 - 360 oldal
...gates. ECCLESIASTES OR THE PREACHER THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of...generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 oldal
...Thoughts of Men are Vanity. * Our Converfation, received by Tradition from our Fathers, is vain. *, And what Profit hath a Man of all his Labour which he taketh, and of the Vexation of his Heart , wherein he hath labour'd under the Sun? » He laboureth in vain,... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1757 - 332 oldal
...experience of all mankind, That Riches profit not in the day of •wrath, Prov. xi. 4. What profit then hath a man of all his labour 'which he taketh under the Sun ? Ecelef. 5, 3. No more than if he had fat ftill and done nothing at all, if his labour was only for... | |
 | James Burgh - 1766 - 312 oldal
...No author is more copious on this fubjeft than So LOMON. " Vanity of vanities, faith the preacher, all " is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour, " which he taketh under the fun ? I have feen all the " works that are done under the fun, and behold, all " is vanity and vexation... | |
 | 1788 - 598 oldal
...king of Jerufalem. 2 Vanity of vanities, faith the Preacher, vanity of vanities : all- is vanity. 3 What, profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the fun ? 4 fl One generation pafieth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever.... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 538 oldal
...flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."* Again in Ecdesiastes, " one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh ; but the earth abideth for ever." Le Cat, who was a man of strong abilities, did not sit down quietly under this scriptural condemnation.... | |
 | Jonathan Birch - 1800 - 122 oldal
...glory perish with herself, and let us be conversant with more eternal things. ECCL., chap. 1, v. 2, 14. Vanity of vanities ; saith the preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit.... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1804 - 342 oldal
..."our expectations an herring-fishery*." But these, after all, are but new words to the old tune, " Vanity of " vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of...of all his labour which " he taketh under the sun ?" — to which may be answered in the words of the same preacher : " Whatsoever thy " hand findeth... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 oldal
...name shall be perpetual. On the vanity anil insufficiency of all worldly possessions. Ecclesiastes. Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun : and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 oldal
...very apparent. CHAP. I. 1 r I MIE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Je2 Л- rusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher ; vanity of vanities, all [is] vanity, that i», all that relates only to thin life. This is the text of his sermon, and the issue of his... | |
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VANITY of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth for ever. 
