 | 1611 - 360 pages
...experience of wisdom andknowledge. And Igave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief -.and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth,... | |
 | James Inglis - 1820 - 406 pages
...seen all the works that are under the sun: and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit."* "And I gave my heart to know wisdom; I perceived that this...spirit: for in much wisdom is much grief; and he that in1 creaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow."f The mfnd of man, like his body, is susceptible of satiety... | |
 | John Arrowsmith - 1822 - 410 pages
...for when study hath been midwife to knowledge, knowledge becomes nurse to grief. Let Solomon speak ; I gave my heart to know wisdom, I perceived that this...spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.^. Many . and dreadful are the damps that seize upon such as... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...less folly to expect that happiness is to be found in abstract speculations. What was the result ? / perceived that this also is vexation of spirit ; for in much wisdom is much grief : arising from the disappointments naturally occasioned by those limits which circumscribe the mind... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 pages
...had been before him, was constrained at length to confess in the bitterness of his disappointment ; / perceived, that this also is vexation of spirit : for in much wisdom is much grief ; and, he, that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow *. But, hereafter, the servants of the Lord will eat of the... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 pages
...gotten more wisdom than all they, &c. and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit: for in much wisdom, is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. — Eccles. i. 2. 13, 14. 16—18. I will prove thee with... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...gotten more wisdom than all they, &c. and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit : for in much wisdom, is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. — Eccles. i. 2. 13, 14. 16—18. I will prove thee with... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 484 pages
...attending Wisdom and Knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, iucruaseth sorrow.— ECCLKB. i. 17, 18. 397 SERMON XXVI. The Magnitude of the... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 458 pages
...attending Wisdom and Knowledge. And I gave my heart to know w adorn, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom ii much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increase tli sorrow. — ECCLES. i. 17, 18. - 397... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...to search out by wisdom all things that are done under the sun. 1 gave my heart to know wisdom ; but I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit ; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." . " I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it... | |
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief : and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
