| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...with victory. XXIII. 0 Lord God, how ambitious, how covetous of knowledge is this soul of mine ! As " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," Eccles. i. 8, no more is the mind of man with understanding ; yea, so insatiable is my heart, that... | |
| 1849 - 1188 pages
...living for. Read the eighth verse of the first chapter — " All things are full of labor ; man cannot utter it ; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing;" science cost him more labor than it furnished him satisfaction ; it could not fill an immortal soul.... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...there is one event unto all ; and no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them. 4 The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. All the labour of man is for the mouth ; and yet the appetite is not filled. He that loveth silver... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full: unto the place from whence the rivers come,... | |
| Henry Hunt PIPER - 1833 - 516 pages
...please and satisfy another more advanced. In these things, each acquisition creates new wants, and " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." But apart from all these things, the value of which true religion does not underrate, the danger of... | |
| John Howe - 1835 - 662 pages
...what was the wise man's experience, would be every man s that were at leisure to consider the case ; The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing, Eccles. i. 8. Sense, let it be gratified never so much, will still live unsatisfied, will be always... | |
| John Crook (of Lyon's inn.) - 1836 - 114 pages
...receiveth blessing from God." — , (Hebrews vi. 7.) *. " All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." — (Ecclesiastes i. 8.) 183. The good mart:. The Creative Power, having distinguished the Universal... | |
| Edward Berens - 1836 - 442 pages
...of mind, they feel restless and unsatisfied, and wishing for they know not what. They feel, that " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, " nor the ear filled with hearing 2," " neither " is the eye satisfied with riches5." In the weariness and restlessness of their soul,... | |
| James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 pages
...the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All thing are full of labor: man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be : and that which is done is that... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 582 pages
...with victory. XXIII. O Lord God, how ambitious, how covetous of knowledge, is this soul of mine! As the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing; Eccl. i. 8. no more is the mind of man with understanding: yea, so insatiable is my heart, that the... | |
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