 | John Piggott - 1714 - 554 pages
...to fully my Moral Character ; for he immediately fubjoins, And whatfoever mine Eyes Ver. 10. defied, I kept not from them, I withheld not my Heart from any Joy. Yet after all, when the Wife-Man comes fedately to review what he had done, he pronounces, That all... | |
 | James Burgh - 1766 - 312 pages
...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 fpirit, and there was no profit under " the fun. What hath man of all his labour, and " of the vexation of heart, wherein he hath laboured " under the... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1768 - 360 pages
...looked on ail the works " that my hands had wrought, snd on the labour " that I had laboured to do : and behold, all " was vanity and vexation of fpirit, and there *' was no prcfit under the fun." And towards the clofe-of the fame book, ch xii. 12. he fays, " And further,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1775 - 246 pages
...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 fpirit — and there was no profit to me under the fun. C4 To To inflame this account the more— 'twill be no miracle, if upon calling... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 pages
...than all the men that were before me in Jerufalem ; my wifdom alfo remained with me. *And wbatjoever mine eyes defired, I kept not from them ; I withheld not my heart from any joy ; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion of all my labour, Eccl. ii. 5, —... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1779 - 318 pages
...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 fpirit ; and there was no profit under the fun. Verf. n. I gat me men-fingers and women-fingers, and the delights of the fons of men, as mufical inftruments,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 480 pages
...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 fpirit — and there was no profit to me under the fun. To inflame this account the more — it would be no miracle, if upon cafling it... | |
 | William Jabet - 1787 - 348 pages
...that were before me in Jerufalem ; alfo my Wijdom remained with me ; and whatfoever mine Eyes dejired, I kept not from them. I with-held not my Heart from any Joy ; for my Heart rejoiced in all my Labour ; and this zvas the Portion of all my Labour. When we read... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...before me in Jerufalem : alfo my wifdom remained with me. .'..• • i •., : ''• 10 And whatfoever mine eyes defired, I kept not from them : I with-held not my heart from any joy; for; my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 1 1 Then I looked... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 326 pages
...looked on all the works that my hands had " wrought, and on the labour that I had labouredtodo : " And behold all was vanity and vexation of fpirit ; " and there was no profit under the fun." Ver. n. " I gat me men-fingers and women-fingers, and the de" lights of the fons of men, as muiical... | |
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And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour. 
