 | 1849 - 492 pages
...Clyde, and Lanark, and the Cartland Crags, and Ayr ; but the wish was a vain one. How true it is that " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing," Eccles. i. 8. We are much more disposed to sigh for what we have not, than to rejoice for what we possess;... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 778 pages
...the rivers come, thither they return again. s All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. s The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done, is that which shall... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 646 pages
...portion the world is, endeavour to satisfy them from their portion, but all in vain, Eccl. i. 8, " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." Hab. ii. 5. " He is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ' The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall... | |
 | Abraham Belais - Bible - 1850 - 84 pages
...other powerful creations of the universe. 8, 9 " All things are full of labour ;" man cannot utter it ; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that has been, is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done... | |
 | Harvey Newcomb - History - 1850 - 232 pages
...people are to be rich; and the more their artificial wants are gratified, the more they are increased. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." Solomon was a great king, so rich that he was able to get whatever his heart desired. He built great... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - United States - 1850 - 456 pages
...that hath been is that which shall be, and that which is done is that which shall be done, — still the eye is not^ satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing : and this affords the solution to all the rest. The aspirations of man to a better condition than... | |
 | Jacob Merlo Horstius, Jacobus Merlo (Horstius.) - 1850 - 738 pages
...gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of our own' soul ? "What profit is it? For true it is, that the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing, nor the soul with all these earthly things, for almost all things without us are within us only by... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - History - 1850 - 446 pages
...continents are revealed upon earth. New pursuits are ers of man are from time to time enlarged : but the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The tendency of the magnet to the pole, and its application to the purposes of navigation ; the composition... | |
 | John Brown - 1850 - 620 pages
...busy, bustling scene is this world of ours ! " All things are full of labour ; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing." l The endlessly diversified forms of human activity, which called forth this emphatic exclamation from... | |
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All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. 
