 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.  Poems - Page 113by Samuel Rogers - 1843 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | L. M. Montgomery - Fiction - 1997 - 522 pages
...briskly snapping wood fire and a table nicely spread for l."I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" (Ecclesiastes 1:14). 2. This whole paragraph has subtle echoes of the Song of Solomon: "For lo, the... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 420 pages
...man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred. / have considered (saith Solomon), all the works that are under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit [Ecclesiastes 1:14], but who believes it till Death tells it us? ... It is therefore Death alone that... | |
 | Johann Amos Comenius - Religion - 1998 - 276 pages
...eomplete joy and peaee of mind. Seeond Edition Amsterdam, 1663 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun, And, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. -Ecclesiastes 1:14 I, liber, in lucem, rigid! secure Catonis, i labyi inthaeis currere docte viis.... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Civilization, Western - 1998 - 424 pages
...main theme is the transience and futility of human endeavour: 'I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit' (1:14, AV).1 In the Ecclesiastes of the Authorized Version of the Bible, the word 'vanity' recurs around... | |
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