 | 1611 - 360 pages
...his daysare sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. There is nothing better for a man, than that...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who else can... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pages
...use of such things as are lawfully permitted, non est ttmperatia, as he wiHr sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking and hunting, tot solatia in hac tegriorbis... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...he more frequently repeats than this. There is nothing, says he, in express words again and again, There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, arid enjoy the good of his labour*. It is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...so much care, labour and fatigue, yet it must be left to he knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he...drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...XVII. DUTIES TOWARD OURSELVES. TEMPERANCE. I. THR temperate utrofmrat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...and his travail grief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 The re is nothing better for a man than that he should eat...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...against the tenderness of .sorrow. In such a case, I would say with Solomon, in the literal sense, " There is nothing better for a man than that he " should...drink, and that he should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ; and drink thy wine *' with a merry heart."*... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...my heart out of conceit and hope of any good issue of all my earthly labours and endeavours. II. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since the life of man is attended with M> much... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...of his outward possessions, for his own comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. F.ccles. ii. 24 26. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 pages
...I had only mentioned great Solomon's both practice and counsel. There is nothing better, saith he, 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 of God ,• for who can eat, or who can... | |
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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. 
