 | Robert Burton - 1800 - 628 pages
...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...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 mortalibus... | |
 | 1806 - 504 pages
...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 those... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...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...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 in wany... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...knows not who. This is also vanity. 24 [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. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God : the best way therefore, is not to engage in n:any... | |
 | Robert Burton - 1806 - 626 pages
...use of such things as are .lawfully permitted, nan est ttmperatus, as he. will, sed supcrstitiosus. There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat aud drink, and that he should make his soule enjoy , good in his labour, Ecdes. 2.24. And . as d one... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 hereunto... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...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...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 God hath... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...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...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 and care... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...of his outward possessions, for his own comfort; yet this is the gift of God. Eccles. ii. 24 25. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should...and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of God. John i. 12, 13. " As many as received him,... | |
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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. 
