 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 562 pages
...with victory. XXIII. О Lord God, how ambitious, how covetous of knowledge, is this soul of mine ! As the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing ; Eccl. i. 8. no more is the mind of man with understanding : yea, so insatiable is my heart, that... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...place no more, but must be content to imitate these things only in their restless agitations. Ver. 8. All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter"...satisfied -with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.'] Which is another thing that increaseth his trouble, that in this short life, which he cannot live over... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...pursuits are vain, and do not yield full satisfaction to the mind. " All things are full of labour : roan cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing; nor the ear filled with hearing." From this general assertion the royal preacher proceeds to sTiew, that wisdom, and knowledge, and learning... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things art- full of lalxxir ; man cnnnot ael hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the IHlccl with hearing. 9 The thing that h.ith been, it is that •which shall be ; and that which is... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...courses and pursuits are vain, and do not yield full satisfaction to the mind. All things, says he, arc full of labour : man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing; nor the ear Jilted with hearing. ,, From this general assertion the royal preacher proceeds to shew, that wisdom,... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...another, to obtain full satisfaction ; but all in vain, Ps. xxxix. 6 ; Prov. xix. 21 ; Luke x. 41. 8. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it...satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Having shewn the unquiet motion of the sun, winds, and rivers, he here concludes his induction of particulars... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 462 pages
...that which hath been done ; and there is no new thing under the sun. Weigh these words, my brethren, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. It •seems this is precisely the disposition of mind which the wise man attacks ; a disposition, as... | |
 | 1842 - 612 pages
...our salvation ! E. THE YOUTH THAT FAINTS NOT. " ALL things are full of labor," said the wise man, " man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." Yet this labor assumes usually the form of a blessing rather than a curse. How laborious are half of... | |
 | Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...north : it whirleth about continually. 7 All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full 8 AH things are full of labour : man cannot utter it : the eye is not satis. fied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 The thing that hath been, it fa that which... | |
 | Sir William Temple - Europe - 1814 - 580 pages
...by the wisest of men, but even by divine inspiration, where Solomon tells us, " The thing that has been, is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. Jg there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? It has been already of old time... | |
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All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 
