 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...labours of 8*so transitory a being ! Besides, all things in which man so anxiously toils are wearisome; man cannot utter [it :] the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled and satiated with hearing. And this must be the case, since life is subjected to a continual round... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 504 pages
...both. ' Vanity of vanities ! saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities ! all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the...the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, although there is nothing new under the sun. Moreover, I saw under the sun,' saith he,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1828 - 594 pages
...preached, should still be violently opposed in our sinful world? A. Not at all. Solomon tells us that " The thing that hath been, is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun.'' G. FOETR7. HTMN. When Christ in human nature came, And dwelt on cnrth a child of woe, lie... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bible - 1824 - 526 pages
...with victory. XXIII. O 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," no more is the mind- of man with understanding; yea, so insatiable is my heart, that the more I know,... | |
 | J Dennis Furley - 1824 - 188 pages
...rivers come, thither they return again, g [8] All things are full of labour, man cannot utter it: tne eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. circuits. This is all that was necessary to be said of th« Wind ; for certainly it would have been... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, tiiither they return again. 8 him. 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...courses and pursuits are vain, and do not yield full satisfaction to the mind. All things, says he, are full of labour: man cannot utter it: the eye is...satisfied with seeing; nor the ear filled with hearing. From this general assertion the royal preacher proceeds to shew, that wisdom, knowledge, and learning... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...their strength labour and sorrow ; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away, ic. 7—10. All things ore full of labour ; man cannot utter it: the eye is not...satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...being accustomed to them, leave him empty, unless he can make some new experiment for happiness : " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," Eccl. i. 8. New circumstances, and new wants, which are not provided for by what we have already, will... | |
 | 1847 - 798 pages
...expression of man, but also the intellectuals and conceptions of man. Solomon, Israel's sage, saith, "The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." The eye may see great things, the ear may hear greater things, and greater than those seen or heard, may... | |
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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. 
