 | Menzies Rayner - 1833 - 202 pagine
...— and the " third cause of his perdition." We confess we can see no reason for it. Solomon says, " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and enjoy good — This also I saw that it was from the hand of God." And Moses says to the Israelites,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1834 - 658 pagine
...chalice, as knowing the drink that was poured upon their graves would be cold and without relish. " Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses,...signification is that of Solomon, " There is nothing belter for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in... | |
 | Михаил Николаевич Загоскин - 1834 - 232 pagine
...mortification of the flesh at a period not appointed by the church. — Truly saith the preacher, — ' There is nothing' better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his sowZ enjoy the good things of this life.' " — "Then, Boyard," rejoined Kirsha, archly, " thou hadst... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1836 - 418 pagine
...it is spoken, want its admirers : it will have the applause of numbers, whose opinion it is, that ' there is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat, and drink, and enjoy himself, all the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.' 19. He shall go to the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1838 - 610 pagine
...chalice, as knowing the drink that was poured upon their graves would be cold and without relish. " Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses,...locks with nard ; for God bids you to remember death." Something towards this signification is that of Solomon : " There is nothing better for a man than... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1838 - 612 pagine
...chalice, as knowing the drink that was poured upon their graves would be cold and without relish. "Break the beds, drink your wine, crown your heads with roses,...locks with nard ; for God bids you to remember death." Something towards this signification is that of Solomon : " There is nothing better for a man than... | |
 | 1896 - 854 pagine
...infirmities of human nature. The monks would have declared with the preacher of old time that there is really nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good iu his labor; and thus nine-tenths of them degenerated into Nimrods, Ramrods,... | |
 | Pope Gregory I - 1844 - 646 pagine
...the reader to a truth that is to be understood. Thus, how is it that Solomon says, There tsEco. 3, nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink; ' and adds not long after, It is better to go to the house qf'Ece. 1, mourning than to the house of feasting?... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1846 - 1102 pagine
...sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity. 24 H p trol and restraint of conscience and the law of God ; 10 should make his soul enjoy good in his » Chap. i. 3 ; iii. 9. ° Job v. 7 ; xiv. 1. 1 Chap. iii.... | |
 | John Pickering - 1847 - 222 pagine
...man the world ever knew. After taking his testimony, we shall suffer Mr. Paley to rest in peace. " There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor, all the days of his life, which God giveth him, for it is his portion... | |
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There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. 
