 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 - Seite 93von Piomingo - 1813 - 312 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 Seiten
...with unquiet thoughts and cares ; for the heart may be awake when the body sleeps, Cant. v. 2. 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... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 484 Seiten
...floundering deeper and deeper in his philosophical inquiries, he sinks at last into gross Epicurism, There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink J, £;c. But then adding, and of such good who can enjoy more than I\ ? This recalls his real character,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1814 - 392 Seiten
...speaks the sense of their drunken principles. Something towards this signification is that of Solomon ; 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; for that is his portion ; for who shall bring... | |
 | 1815 - 614 Seiten
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. 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 itzms from the hand of... | |
 | 1877 - 798 Seiten
...men must have been a fool if he could seriously propound, as sufficing for happiness, such maxims as that " 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 labours : " and, " Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 550 Seiten
...whenever it is spoken, want its admirers : it will have the applause of numbers, whose opinion it is, that " there is nothing better for a man, than that he " should eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, al the " days of his life, which God giveth him under the " sun." 19. He shall go to... | |
 | 1819 - 948 Seiten
...his travail £rief ; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 IT There ii t; every one thm he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of... | |
 | Owen Felltham - 1820 - 552 Seiten
...them, his failing being rather in his age, than it. And in the 24th verse of the same chapter, he says, 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; and this he saw, that it was from the hand of... | |
 | Owen Felltham - 1820 - 546 Seiten
...them, his failing being rather in his age, than it. And in the 24th verse of the same chapter, he says, 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; and this he saw, that it was from the hand of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 Seiten
...the sense of their drunken principles d. Something towards this signification is that of Solomon, " 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; for that is his portion; for who shall bring... | |
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