...i An old fragment of pessimistic literature repeats/ the dismal refrain, "the thing that hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun." Optimism sees a goal, far-off or near. The optimist is sobered when he looks back. Progress...

...sighing, the soldier swearing, &c. The thought is that of the Ecclesiast, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ... and there is no new thing under the sun " (Ecclesiastes, i. 9). In Sonnet 123, Shakespeare recurs to the thought, so common in Greek...

...Meanwhile we need to bear in mind one or two very comforting facts—that the thing that hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun; that if there is no Providence there never was one, and, similarly, if there are bacteria...

...Meanwhile we need to bear in mind one or two very comforting facts — that the thing that hath been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun; that if there is no Providence there never was one, and, similarly, if there are bacteria...

...What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun ? The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. One generation passeth away, and another cometh ; but the earth abideth forever. ' No wonder...

...exposed to this danger is undeniable. It was the wisest of men who said, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be * * * and there is no new thing under the sun." But, sir, not until the hour that this treaty was debated in this chamber did the idea come...

...exposed to this danger is undeniable. It was the wisest of men who said, "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be * *• * and there is no new thing under the sun." But, sir, not until the hour that this treaty was debated in this chamber did the idea come...

...nature-machine and crooning mournfully to ourselves the old refrain, " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ... and there is no new thing under the sun." Our ardent wishes are our most real prayers, and that men often see the fulfilment of these,...

...point of fact, quite old, having in the past repeatedly emerged and passed away. That which has been is that which shall be, and there is no new thing under the sun. The new fashions in theology are as much like the old Arianism and Socinianism and Gnosticism...

...as they are hard to pronounce. CHAPTER XXII Black Man = Black Manners " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be : and there is no new thing under the sun." SOLOMON. "When I was a boy in Gaul I beheld the Scots, a people living in Britain, eating...