 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...my heart out of conceit 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
...of thy flocks, and look 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...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. Eccl. iii. 12. I know that there is no good... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 pages
...with unquiet thoughts and cares ; for the heart may be awake when the body sleeps, Cant. v. 2. 24. ^[ There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. In this verse, and to the end of the chapter,... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 484 pages
...floundering deeper and deeper in his philosophical inquiries, he sinks at last into gross Epicurism, There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink J, £;c. But then adding, and of such good who can enjoy more than I\ ? This recalls his real character,... | |
 | Piomingo - 1813 - 330 pages
...over' Jlowing cup. When the wise king of Israel would sum up the felicities of life, he declares that " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink; and he adds, with rapturous exultation, " Who can eat or hasten hereunto more than I?" A nice and accurate... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814 - 392 pages
...speaks the sense of their drunken principles. Something towards this signification is that of Solomon ; there is nothing better for a man than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour; for that is his portion ; for who shall bring him to see that which .shall be after him. (Eccles.... | |
 | 1815 - 614 pages
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that itzms from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten... | |
 | 1877 - 798 pages
...have been a fool if he could seriously propound, as sufficing for happiness, such maxims as that " there is nothing better for a man than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours : " and, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God... | |
 | John Dunton - 1818 - 460 pages
...as I am to a sneaking temper. And I think I am right in this part of my character, for Solomon says, "There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make bis soul enjoy good in his labour."—To sum up my character in few words : I love travelling, do not... | |
 | John Dunton - 1818 - 824 pages
...am right iu this part of my character, for Solomon says, "There is nothing better for a man, that) that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour." — To sum up my character in few words: I love travelling, do not love fighting ; love Valeria,... | |
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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. 
