 | 1611 - Liczba stron: 360
...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief -.and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold,... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - Liczba stron: 654
...in general, is grateful to the mind : and yet some kinds of knowledge are painful. Solomon says, " In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccl. i. 18. There must be a great deal of pains to get it, and a great deal of care to keep it: the... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - Liczba stron: 500
...under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Because no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Though a man labour... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1806 - Liczba stron: 468
...guards not from disasters and vexations; yea, there is in it an innate grief, amidst so many follies d. Yea, give a man the confluence of all these, which is so rare, make him at once rich and honourable, and healthful, and encompassed with all the delights of nature and art, and wise, to make... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - Liczba stron: 356
...Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STAR GAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears bis thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - Liczba stron: 330
...Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STARGAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears his thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - Liczba stron: 532
...follow a profound research, have filled literature with mournful echoes of the words of the royal sage, 'In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' The lives of men of genius have been for the most part a conscious and deliberate realisation of the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Liczba stron: 596
...so that no man can find out the work that Cod inakcth from the beginning to the end." Ver. 11. " For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." Ch. i. ver. 18. " And further, by these, my son, he admonished : of making many books there is no end... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - Liczba stron: 562
...Greek verse, that there is a great deal of convenience in not being too wise : ru And the preacher, " In much wisdom is much grief;'. . . " and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth " sorrow."§ Another proof of the weakness of philosophy, isAm>th«that last receipt, to which philosophy in general... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - Liczba stron: 434
...and graces bestowed upon us, as the apostle does, 1 Cor. xiv. 18; xv. 10 ; 2 Cor. xi. 5, 6. 18. For in much wisdom is much grief ; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. " In much wisdom," or in the abundance of wisdom, as Ps. Ixxii. 7 ; li. 1 ; Prov. xx: 15 ; HON. viii.... | |
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
