 | Richard Lucas - 1710 - 378 Seiten
...naked, blind, difeafed, and miserable 5 they inherit Emptinefs and Vanity, hollow deceitful Comforts5 the Eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the Ear with hearing, and even this Dream, this Day, this airy Vifion will pafs away in a moment •-, For the world faffes... | |
 | Richard Lucas - 1722 - 344 Seiten
...Temporal Good, and then confider, I befeech you, how empty, uncertain, mix'd and allay'd this is ; fo that all Things are full of Labour , Man cannot utter...is £*""' " not fatisfied with feeing^ nor the Ear flled with hearing. But if there be any thing in this, the virtuous Man has at leaft as good a Title... | |
 | John Leng (bp. of Norwich.) - 1730 - 536 Seiten
...inftance, is, The perpetually growing defire of knowledge, and that of all kinds, as far as poffible. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing ; nor does the mind, which is exercifed in the fearch of Truth, ever think it has proceeded far enough,... | |
 | Richard Lucas - 1735 - 486 Seiten
...which is crooked cannot be made jlraight, and that which is •wanting cannot be numbred. And therefore the eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing : byt all things are full of labour; man cannot utter it. And if this were not the ftate of temporal... | |
 | Andrew Welwood - 1763 - 326 Seiten
...be, and there is no new thing under the fun. What profit hath a man of all his !iliour ? For though the eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing, fo that new enjoyments are evtr required ; yet muft the fame thing be run over, and over again : and... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 Seiten
...reft there that he would be at. 4. All is vanity ; the word imports unfatisfactorinefs ; Eccl. i. 8. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing. As there is no true profit, fo no true comfort therein, abftract from God. It is but a vain comfort... | |
 | John Newton - 1786 - 512 Seiten
...obiervation abundantly confirm the remark of Solomon, That he who increafeth knowledge increafeth for row. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing *. Unlefs the heart be feafoned and fanclified by grace, the fum total of all other acquifitions, isbut... | |
 | 1788 - 598 Seiten
...yet the fea is not full : unto the . place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour: man cannot utter it:...the eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. • • ; . 9 fl The thing that hath been, it is that which fhall be ; and that... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 734 Seiten
...the fea, yet the fea is not full. Unto the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing.'* At fo early a period was curiofity employed in obferving thefe great circulations of nature. The inquiry... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 Seiten
...reft there that he would be at. 4. All is vanity; the word imports unfatisfadlorinefs; Eccl. i. 8. " The eye is not fatisfied with feeing, nor the ear with hearing." As there is no true profit, fo no true comfort therein, abftraft from God. It. is but a vain comfort... | |
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The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 
