 I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do — and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit — and there was no profit to me under the sun.  The Works of Laurence Sterne ... - Sida 19efter Laurence Sterne - 1783Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Laurence Sterne - 1760 - 226 sidor
...and well, if you can compound for that — fince 'tis often purchaied at fo high a price, and foured by a mixture of other incidental vexations, as to...did from Solomon, in the .like , cafe. — Lo ! I lodked on all the Works , that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do —... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1766 - 326 sidor
...amufement—and well, if you can compound for that—fince 'tis often purchafed at fo high a price, and fo foured by a mixture of other incidental vexations, as to...confeffion from him, which it did from Solomon in the like cafe—Lo! I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1777 - 252 sidor
...ver. j. I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees, vcr. 6. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and OR the labour that I had laboured to do, and behold, all was vanity and vexition of fpirit ; and there... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 sidor
...and well, if you can compound for that — Cnce 'ts often purchafed at fo high a price, and fo foured by a mixture of other incidental vexations, as to...repentance, which in the end will extort the fame forrowful ccni feffion from him, -which it did from Solomon in the like cafe, — Lo ! I looked on all the works... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1805 - 470 sidor
...well, if you can compound for that— since 'tis often purchased at so high a price, and so soured by a mixture of other incidental vexations, as to...work of repentance, which in the end will extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon in the like case— Lo ! I looked on... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1829 - 370 sidor
...women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sidor
...well, 'if yon can compound for that — since 'tis often purchased at so high a price, and so soured by a mixture of other incidental vexations, as to...Work of repentance , which in the end will extort the same sorrowful confession from him, which it did from Solomon, in the like саз«, — Lo! I looked... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 sidor
...satisfaction. And then he sums up the matter in a method most instructive to a votary of the world : " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on all the labor that I had labored to do, and behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there... | |
 | David Marks - 1831 - 410 sidor
...sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." And in the eleventh verse, he says: " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought — and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit." And though the Lord suffered the practice for a time,... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 sidor
...multiplication of the thoughts of the mind upon the subject propounded, so the scripture expresseth it, " I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought;" and in the next verse, " I returned to see," Eccl. 2:11,12. He looked upon, and considered his works, and... | |
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