...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,...

...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 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...

...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...

...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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour; for that is his portion ; for who shall...

...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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that itzms from the hand...

...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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours : " and, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with...

...it is spoken, want its admirers : it will have the applause of numbers, whose opinion it is, that " there is nothing better for a man, than that he " should eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, al the " days of his life, which God giveth him under the " sun." 19. He shall go...

...his travail £rief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 IT There ii t; every one and thm he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand...

...them, his failing being rather in his age, than it. And in the 24th verse of the same chapter, he says, 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; and this he saw, that it was from the hand...

...them, his failing being rather in his age, than it. And in the 24th verse of the same chapter, he says, 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; and this he saw, that it was from the hand...