 | 1611 - 360 էջ
...experience of wisdom andknowledge. And Igave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit....increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold, this also... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 էջ
...in general, is grateful to the mind : and yet some kinds of knowledge are painful. Solomon says, " In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccl. i. 18. There must be a great deal of pains to get it, and a great deal of care to keep it: the... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1802 - 504 էջ
...the sons of men which they should da under the heaven alt the days of their life, ver. 3. Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me i and why was 1 then more wiie ? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity, Bccln.... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 էջ
...done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Because no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Though a man labour... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 356 էջ
...Avis, Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STAR GAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears bis thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 330 էջ
...Avis, Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STARGAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears his thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | 1807 - 570 էջ
...ili in darkness : aud I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. 1 5 Tlu ii said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me ; and why was I then more wise ? then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. 16 For... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 էջ
...follow a profound research, have filled literature with mournful echoes of the words of the royal sage, 'In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' The lives of men of genius have been for the most part a conscious and deliberate realisation of the... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 էջ
...know wisdom, and to know madness and f.'lly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 18 tay. 19 He brought" thy people, that I may discern between good : increasctli sorrow. CHAP. II. 1 The vanity of human courses in the works qf/ilccuure. 12 Though the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 էջ
...heart, so that no man can find out the work that Cod inakcth from the beginning to the end." Ver. 11. " For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." Ch. i. ver. 18. " And further, by these, my son, he admonished : of making many books there is no end... | |
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
