...visible expression of those sobering words of the Preacher : " I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Katharine Ashton, though still young, had full cause now to realise this truth ; the dark night of...

...visible expression of those sobering words of the Preacher : " I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit." VOL. H. — 8 Katharine Ashton, though still young, had full cause now to realise this truth ; the...

...hath God given to tha sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight : and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. I communed...

...folly ; I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. I have seen all the works that are <lone under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit .... Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished....

...pleasure, he exclaimed, " Vanity of vanities ; all is vanity ! I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit !" Very profound and beautiful were the precepts which this melancholy experience forced upon the mind...

...of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun : and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccl. i. 14. Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Eccl. ii....

...describing all such achievements as characterized by vanity. " I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit." Again, the decline of Solomon's piety may be ascribed by some to his occupation with these works of...

...hateth and destroyeth man, is believed ; God, which hath made him, and loves him, is always defied. I have considered (says Solomon) all the works that...;' but who believes it till death tells it us ? It was death which, opening the conscience of Charles the Fifth, made him enjoin his son Philip to restore...

...from the text in Ecclesiastes, 1st chap., 14th verse — " I have seen all the works that are done under the sun and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit." His successor in the ministry was the Rev. Henry Messinger. 2. Rev. SAMCEL* MAN m. in 1673, Esther...

...hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. ECCLESIASTES DEREK MAHON God, you could grow to love it, God-fearing, Godchosen purist little puritan...