| Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it...satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done in that which shall... | |
| 1815 - 974 pages
...yet the fea is not full i unto the place from whence the rivers, come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour •; man cannot utter it : the eye is not fatisfied with teeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 ^ The thing that hath been, it is that which... | |
| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...empty and full of anguish amidst all these things. Nuy the very senses are not satisfied with them. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." Eccl. 1. 8. All this world cannot fill the emptiness of the eye, or the ear. Pray do but consider the... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...Paris. The wise man, just quoted, wishesto save us from these errors. He has already informed us — '« The thing that hath been, is that which shall be ; and there is no ten thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this it new? It hath been... | |
| Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...tsnot full: unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things art among wi.ii seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...to compound with our condition : but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 2. The human understanding shoots itself out, and cannot rest, but still goes on, though to no purpose.... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...to compound with our condition : but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 2. The human understanding shoots itself out, and cannot rest, but still goes on, though to no purpose.... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...by the wisest of men, but even bydivine inspiration, where Solomon tells us — " The thing that has been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. h there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? It has been already of old time,... | |
| Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...to compound with our condition : but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 2. The human understanding shoots itself out, and cannot rest, but still goes on, though to no purpose.... | |
| Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...to compound with our condition : but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 2. The human understanding shoots itself out, and cannot rest, but still goes on, though to no purpose.... | |
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