 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.  The Savage - Page 101by Piomingo - 1833 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour," Eccles. 2. 24. And as * one said of hauking... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 666 pages
...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 - 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 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... | |
 | 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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Ch. iii. 13. — v. 18, 19, 20. 1 Tim. iv. 3.... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...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 eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw that it was from the hand of... | |
 | 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 eat and drink, and that he should make " his soul enjoy good in his labour." " Go thy " way : eat thy bread with joy ;... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 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 eat and drink, and that he should wake his soul enjoy good in his labour. Yet of all vanities this is the best, since... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Ver. 24. For riches are not for ever, — Keel. ii. 24. 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. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of... | |
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