| Richard Lucas - 1710 - 378 pages
...naked, blind, difeafed, and miserable 5 they inherit Emptinefs and Vanity, hollow deceitful Comforts5 the Eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the Ear with hearing, and even this Dream, this Day, this airy Vifion will pafs away in a moment •-, For the world faffes... | |
| Simon Patrick (bp. of Ely.) - 1719 - 538 pages
...of the Old World recorded there, tell us, that -all Things are full of Labour, Man cannot utter it. The Eye is not fatisfied with, feeing, nor the Ear with hearing, Ecclef. i. 8. That is, none can exprefs the Toil and Pains that Men take, for the acquiring and purchafmg... | |
| John Leng (bp. of Norwich.) - 1730 - 536 pages
...inftance, is, The perpetually growing defire of knowledge, and that of all kinds, as far as poffible. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing ; nor does the mind, which is exercifed in the fearch of Truth, ever think it has proceeded far enough,... | |
| Richard Lucas - 1735 - 486 pages
...which is crooked cannot be made jlraight, and that which is •wanting cannot be numbred. And therefore the eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing : byt all things are full of labour; man cannot utter it. And if this were not the ftate of temporal... | |
| Andrew Welwood - 1763 - 326 pages
...be, and there is no new thing under the fun. What profit hath a man of all his !iliour ? For though the eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing, fo that new enjoyments are evtr required ; yet muft the fame thing be run over, and over again : and... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 pages
...reft there that he would be at. 4. All is vanity ; the word imports unfatisfactorinefs ; Eccl. i. 8. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing. As there is no true profit, fo no true comfort therein, abftract from God. It is but a vain comfort... | |
| John Newton - 1786 - 512 pages
...obiervation abundantly confirm the remark of Solomon, That he who increafeth knowledge increafeth for row. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing *. Unlefs the heart be feafoned and fanclified by grace, the fum total of all other acquifitions, isbut... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 pages
...reft there that he would be at. 4. All is vanity; the word imports unfatisfadlorinefs; Eccl. i. 8. " The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing." As there is no true profit, fo no true comfort therein, abftraft from God. It. is but a vain comfort... | |
| 1800 - 490 pages
...things are full of labour— man cannot utter it. All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not fall. Unto the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." Such were the reflections of the wisest of the ancient... | |
| Samuel Latham Mitchill - 1802 - 514 pages
...perpetually performing^ for they remarked that ' although, all the rivers run into tno fie, yet was the sea not full; unto the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again.' They seem also to have known that MOUNTAINS made a part of this GRAN*) APPARATUS, and to have believed... | |
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