 | 1611 - 360 pages
...travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I ? For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pages
...are lawfully permitted, non est ttmperatia, as he wiHr sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking and hunting, tot solatia in hac tegriorbis calamitate mortalibus... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...gives him ;— for this is his portion. Nay, there is nothing better for a man than that he should cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Methinks the reading of Ecclesiastes should make a Puritan undress his brain, and lay off all those... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 pages
...fatigue, yet it must be left to he knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and...This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not to engage in wany schenif.i, and perplex himself with much business... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...grief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 The re is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto more than I'? 26 For Cod giveth to a man that is... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...OURSELVES. TEMPERANCE. I. THR temperate utrofmrat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanksgiving,... | |
 | Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 pages
....sorrow. In such a case, I would say with Solomon, in the literal sense, " There is nothing better for a man than that he " should eat and drink, and...should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ; and drink thy wine *' with a merry heart."* But God hath... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...possessions, for his own comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. F.ccles. ii. 24 26. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received him,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...and hope of any good issue of all my earthly labours and endeavours. II. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should wake his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since the life of man... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...well to thy herds. Ver. 24. For riches are not for ever, — Keel. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and...This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Eccl. iii. 12. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his... | |
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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 
