 | Matthew Prior - 1802 - 504 pages
...heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore en5oy pleasure, Eccles. chap,ii. ver. \. I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyaeds, ver. 4, I made me gaedens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits,... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...works that are done under the sun : and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure; and, behold, this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, Whatdoethit? I sought... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pages
...but here I met with so much disappointment, 4 that I hate to dwell any longer upon the mention of it. I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vine5 yards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees fi in them of all [kind of] fruits... | |
 | Rev. Woodward - 1806 - 250 pages
...sifting, for he tells us in his book of Ecclesiastes, which is his book of repentance, chap. ii. ver. 1. " I said in my heart, go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure ;" therefore chap. i. ver. 2?. " I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly," what... | |
 | James Dana - 1806 - 518 pages
...reviewed with deep regret the period of his life, when the purfuits of pleafure were his object. " I faid in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee " with mirth ; therefore enjoy pleafure. I made me " great works : I buildcd me houfes : I planted me " vineyards : I made me gardens... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...foul, yet both have one event. IS The vanity if human labour in leaving it they knoiv not to whom. T Said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity. 2 1 said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, what docth it? 3... | |
 | William Penn - 1807 - 394 pages
...the world, at least better to have understood them; hear what he says, after all his experience ; " J said in my heart, Go to now ; I will prove thee with Mirth ; therefore enjoy Pleasure : And behold, this also is vanity. I said of Laughter, It is mad ; and of Mirth, What doeth it ? I... | |
 | Francis Quarles - 1807 - 410 pages
...Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heavi* ness. Eccles. ii. 2. / said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, and therefore enjoy pleasure, and behold this also is vanity: I said of laughter, It is mad ; and of... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...vt. 1, 2. — ii. 26. , .„ CCVI. Riches are attended with care and trouble in life. Eccl. ii. 4. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, See. to ver. 10. Ver. 11. I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought., and on the labour that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...which he doth know he shall perceive so much vanity that shall pierce and humble his soul. II. 1 / said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth. From that austere search of knowledge, I thought to divert my thoughts unto mirth and pleasure. II.... | |
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I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. 
