| Catherine Talbot - English literature - 1819 - 414 pages
...pursued, transacted, and forgotten, like the labours of a bee-hive, or the bustle of an ant-hill. " The thing, which hath been, " it is that which shall be, and that which is " done, is that which shall be done : and " there is no new thing under the sun," Our wisdom,... | |
| Baptists - 1820 - 562 pages
...taking place, relative to emigration, led me almost insensibly to repeat the observation of Solomon, " The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun." gregatioti,... | |
| Hannah More - 1834 - 422 pages
...their day, which influence it now, and nearly in the same manner. One who well knew the world and ita various vanities, has said, " The thing which hath...character, to imagine that none but the young and beautiful have any right to the pleasures of society, or even to the common benefits and blessings... | |
| Hannah More - English literature - 1836 - 452 pages
...But young people never show their folly and ignorance more conspicuously than by this over-confidence in their own judgment, and this haughty disdain of...character, to imagine that none but the young and beautiful have any right to the pleasures of society, or even to the common benefits and blessings... | |
| Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 pages
...generations, has been but a renewing of the emotions and experiences of the generations that are passed ; " the thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is nothing new under the sun." There is something... | |
| Theology - 1838 - 728 pages
...Three thousand years ago it was pronounced, as the experience of three thousand years before, that " the thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done." And what is the true inference from such a moral order... | |
| Derwent Coleridge - Sermons, English - 1839 - 540 pages
...same description of events, so that the accounts of one age appear to anticipate the next, as if " the thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun*." The same errors... | |
| 1865 - 1042 pages
...supplies us with samples and patterns of much that transpires in our own nation, and our own time. " The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there * The Nonconformists In Nottingham, In concurrence... | |
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