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The Savage - Page 101
by Piomingo - 1833 - 324 pages
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Ecclesiastes; or, Lessons for the Christian's daily walk, Volume 1

George W. Mylne - 1856 - 116 pages
...it for JESUS' snke ; and live that life by faith of Him, who gave himself for thee. (Gal. ii. 20.) " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drinh." — ECCL. n. 24. HAD Solomon's wisdom left him ? Did he mean to say that, after all, the drunkard,...
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The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated Out of the ...

1859 - 980 pages
...and his travail grief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in Ute night. This is also vanity. 24 THf.rc d what wilt thou do unto thy créât name Ï 10 If And the LORD sai that he slum lei make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand...
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The Minister's Wooing

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Fiction - 1859 - 594 pages
...when the vision fades, the rapture burns out, turn not away in skepticism and bitterness, saying, " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink," but rather cherish the revelations of those hours as prophecies and foreshadowings of something real...
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Ecclesiastes; Or, Lessons for the Christian's Daily Walk

George W. Mylne - 1859 - 236 pages
...it for JESUS' sake ; and live that life by faith of Him, who gave himself for thee. (Gal. ii. 20.) " There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink." — ECCL. n. 24. HAD Solomon's wisdom left him? Did he mean to say that, after all, the drunkard, or...
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The Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books : the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes ...

Bibles - 1999 - 572 pages
...his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity. Conclusion 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the J, c ° 9 r hand of God; 25 for apart from...
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Ecclesiastes

Bibles - 1999 - 68 pages
...are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. "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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Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore

Alan Dundes - Religion - 1999 - 148 pages
...variation is the "eat, drink, and be merry" formula. There are five versions in Ecclesiastes alone: 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...
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The King's Daughters

Christian women - 2000 - 342 pages
...command. One of the first impressions she received was in harmony with the satire of the wise man: "There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good!" She lived in a splendid mansion, around which the park, with...
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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam

History - 2000 - 422 pages
...of the time ; and long before, Koheleth had summed up his practical philosophy of life in the maxim that " there is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink and make his soul enjoy good in his labour." * Both in hia case and in Omar's this carpe diem philosophy...
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Determinism in the Book of Ecclesiastes

Dominic Rudman - Religion - 2001 - 234 pages
...Qoheleth's view of human joy will be considered in this section. 1. Eccles tastes 2.24-26 The text reads: There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that he should let himself enjoy the good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand...
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