 | William Hales - 1799 - Liczba stron: 398
...learned PRIMATE, &c. &c. &c. will be foremoft to acknowledge the difficulty of feizing the true Ipirit of a detached quotation, which is often diametrically...by PAUL : " Let us eat and " drink, for to-morrow we die."— Thefoolijb Atheift, " may fay openly with DAVID — " There is no GOD" — and the gloomy... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - Liczba stron: 434
...have to enjoy them, when he could not ] Or it may refer to the former part of the preceding verse, " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and enjoy good in his labour." As by his own experience he had proved the vanity and vexation of the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - Liczba stron: 630
...vanity to set their hearts upon it, apd deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - Liczba stron: 618
...vanity to set their hearts upon it, and deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there... | |
 | 1846 - Liczba stron: 348
...and trouble is his occupation ; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This, also, is 24 vanity. There is nothing better for a man than to eat, and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labor. But this, 25 as I have seen, comes from the hand of God.... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 826
...life and all the labour which he had taken under the sun (ch. ii. 18). He thereupon concludes, that there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and make his soul enjoy the fruit of his labour (ch. ii. 26). He observes, however, that there is a... | |
 | Samuel Sharpe - 1858 - Liczba stron: 324
...hates life and all the labour which he had taken under the sun (ii, 1s). He thereupon concludes, that there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and make his soul enjoy the fruit of his labour (ii, 26). He observes, however, that there is a time... | |
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 616
...is sowing to the flesh. The red dot on his Dose, his amorous double chin." To be sure, Solomon says there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of lus labour, for this is his portion ; but afterwards he corrects himself, and... | |
 | George Rapall Noyes - 1867 - Liczba stron: 380
...grief, and his occupation trouble ; even in the night his 24 heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labor. But this, as I have seen, cometh 25 from the hand of God.... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 918
...competent to judge say that nearly as much injury comes to health by over-eating as by over-drinking. "There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink" — in moderation. There is nothing worse than to go, habitually, to excess. Gold pieces are good things... | |
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Q.'s declaration was, that there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink... 
