 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1858 - 298 Seiten
...home, While his eye with rapture glistens, Burns to say, — " I come, I come." EMPTY AND FLEETING. " Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity." Eccl. i. 2. AH, how empty, ah, how fleeting, Is the life of mortal man ! Like the flow of rapid river,... | |
 | Charles John Vaughan - 1860 - 538 Seiten
...commentary upon this expression. You all remember the opening of that Book to which Eccles. i. 2. 1 refer. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities; all is vanity. And you know well the sort of topics with which that Book abounds. The vanity of which it complains... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 358 Seiten
...I. THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Ecclesiastes, chapter i. verse 1. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Verse 2. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more... | |
 | 1860 - 400 Seiten
...Sexagesima. ECCLESIASTES I. 1 11. rip HE words of the Preacher, the son of JL David, king of Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher ; vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away,... | |
 | William Chichester O'Neill (1st baron.) - 1860 - 264 Seiten
...flattering light." " Fading, changing, perishing, dying," may be appropriately inscribed upon them all. " Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity " (Eccles. i. 2) ; mere bubbles, unsubstantial shadows, unsatisfying things ! But, in contrast with... | |
 | Matthew Baigell, Milly Heyd - 2001 - 332 Seiten
...pales when one knows that death awaits all. The moral of the book is encapsulated in its beginning: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun" (1:2-3). The narrator elaborates... | |
 | Susan L. Mizruchi - 2001 - 300 Seiten
...of the Book of Ecclesiastes (2:1-9): The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away,... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 Seiten
...in the gates. Solomon's Elegy on Vanity WORDS OF THE PREACHER, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away,... | |
 | Christina Rossetti - 2001 - 1284 Seiten
...are in the handwriting of MR or CR's mother. Tide [untitled] 1 Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith 'Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity' (Ecc. 1:2). In an extended discussion of this Bible verse in SF, CR wrote that it 'amounts to so exquisite... | |
 | Louis A. DeCaro - 2002 - 349 Seiten
...question of time—of a very short time." 9 8 The Pursuit of Success and the Disappointments of Providence Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? —Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 By 1835,... | |
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 
