 | 1896 - 854 pages
...infirmities of human nature. The monks would have declared with the preacher of old time that there is really nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good iu his labor; and thus nine-tenths of them degenerated into Nimrods, Ramrods,... | |
 | 1846 - 512 pages
...— A very celebrated orthodox clergyman took for his text to a thanksgiving discourse, Eccl. 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 labor. This also I nw, that it •wan from the hand... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pages
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 H p b \DW Q } *> W S_"} } JM ۏ u -ڷ Q and that he 10 should make his soul enjoy good in his » Chap. i. 3 ; iii. 9. ° Job v. 7 ; xiv. 1.... | |
 | 1846 - 792 pages
...outlandish women was no place to look for a riitu out wife, a confiding and faithful bosom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15,24. When he " considered all... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1846 - 810 pages
...outlandish women was no place to look for a virilf<nu wife, a confiding and faithful botom companion. nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor." Chap. 2: 15, 24. When he " considered all... | |
 | John Stow - 1847 - 1142 pages
...the chastisement it would inflict. From the stores of his reflective wisdom the Sapient Solomon said, e, That Judgeth me, is The LORD. Therefore judge nothing before the and that he should make his Soul enjoy good in his labour ; this also I saw, that it was from the Hand... | |
 | John Pickering - 1847 - 222 pages
...man the world ever knew. After taking his testimony, we shall suffer Mr. Paley to rest in peace. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor, all the days of his life, which God giveth him, for it is his... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1847 - 690 pages
...great and singular merit ! Long before the son of Sirach, Solomon had 516 spoken to the same effect : " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in its labour. This also I saw that it was from the hand... | |
 | Thomas Adams - 1848 - 912 pages
...the foundation of sin ? or that his marrying a wife should unkolder his conjunction with Christ? But there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labour, Eccl. ii. 24. And doth not St. Paul call the forbidding... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1848 - 878 pages
...great and singular merit ! "Long before the son of Sirach, Solomon had spoken to the same effect: — 'There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in its Labour. This also I saw that it was from the hand... | |
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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. 
