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... knoweth many things . " " He shall serve among great men , and appear before princes ; he will travel through strange countries ; for he hath tried the good and evil among men " ( Ecclus . xxxiv . 9 , xxxix . 4. Comp . Homer , Od . 1. 3 ) ...
... knoweth many things . " " He shall serve among great men , and appear before princes ; he will travel through strange countries ; for he hath tried the good and evil among men " ( Ecclus . xxxiv . 9 , xxxix . 4. Comp . Homer , Od . 1. 3 ) ...
Page 58
... knoweth not what time shall come upon him , and that he Eccles . vii . 26. And I find more bitter than death the woman , whose heart is snares and nets , and her hands as bands : whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her ; but the sinner ...
... knoweth not what time shall come upon him , and that he Eccles . vii . 26. And I find more bitter than death the woman , whose heart is snares and nets , and her hands as bands : whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her ; but the sinner ...
Page 60
... knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward , and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? Eccles . vii . 13 , xi . 5. Consider the work of God : for who can make that straight , which he hath made crooked ? ... As ...
... knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward , and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? Eccles . vii . 13 , xi . 5. Consider the work of God : for who can make that straight , which he hath made crooked ? ... As ...
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... knoweth to walk before the living ? Eccles . vii . 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning . Eccles . vii . 15. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity . Eccles . vii . 16. Be not righteous over much . Eccles . vii ...
... knoweth to walk before the living ? Eccles . vii . 4. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning . Eccles . vii . 15. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity . Eccles . vii . 16. Be not righteous over much . Eccles . vii ...
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... knoweth them no more . Then , as in later days , there were those who substituted the permanence of fame for that of personal being , and the Debater , with his incisive question shatters the unsubstantial fabric . And how dieth the ...
... knoweth them no more . Then , as in later days , there were those who substituted the permanence of fame for that of personal being , and the Debater , with his incisive question shatters the unsubstantial fabric . And how dieth the ...
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Page 185 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Page 76 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 246 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 118 - Then 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 spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
Page 185 - All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Page 211 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 187 - Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
Page 248 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 241 - fore the king, The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp That beats upon the high shore of this world, No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony, Not all these, laid in bed majestical, Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread...
Page 77 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.