 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 páginas
...use of such things as are lawfully permitted, non est ttmperatia, as he wiHr sed super stitiosus. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking and hunting, tot solatia in hac tegriorbis calamitate... | |
 | 1806 - 504 páginas
...gives him ;— for this is his portion. Nay, there is nothing better for a man than that he should cat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Methinks the reading of Ecclesiastes should make a Puritan undress his brain, and lay off all... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 páginas
...he more frequently repeats than this. There is nothing, says he, in express words again and again, There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, arid enjoy the good of his labour*. It is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 474 páginas
...so much care, labour and fatigue, yet it must be left to he knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he...and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not to engage... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 páginas
...XVII. DUTIES TOWARD OURSELVES. TEMPERANCE. I. THR temperate utrofmrat and drink allowed. Eccl. ii. 24. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3. Meats God hath created to be received with thanksgiving,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 páginas
...and his travail grief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 The re is nothing better for a man than that he should eat...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. 25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 páginas
...of his outward possessions, for his own comfort ; yet this is the gift of God. F.ccles. ii. 24 26. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received him, to them he power to become the sons of God ; which were... | |
 | Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 páginas
...against the tenderness of .sorrow. In such a case, I would say with Solomon, in the literal sense, " There is nothing better for a man than that he " should...and that he should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ; and drink thy wine *' with a merry heart."* But... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 páginas
...my heart out of conceit and hope of any good issue of all my earthly labours and endeavours. II. 24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since the life of man is attended with M> much sorrow... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 558 páginas
...I had only mentioned great Solomon's both practice and counsel. There is nothing better, saith he, for a man, than that he should eat and drink ; and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour : this also I saw, that it was from the hand of God ,• for who can eat, or who can hasten... | |
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There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
