 | 1822 - 394 էջ
...health and happiness, will find that he has made a poor exchange, — ' For,' to such a one at least, ' in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Liverpool. JBM THE AUGUSTAN AGE IN ENGLAND. (See page 243.) It may, perhaps, be considered strange... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 էջ
...human race. Ignorance is the work of nature, error is the work of man. The wise man observes, that " In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." It should seem that there is such a fault as intemperance in the pursuit of knowledge. It is an undoubted... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 312 էջ
...sons of men, which they should do under the heaven, all 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: and why was I then more wise ?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity. Eccles.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1823 - 468 էջ
...had been before him, was constrained at length to confess in the bitterness of his disappointment ; / perceived, that this also is vexation of spirit :...and, he, that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow *. But, hereafter, the servants of the Lord will eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, without... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 508 էջ
...wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. But I perceived that this also is vexation; for in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth...happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth to me, and why was 1 then more wise ? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity. I said in my heart, go to now,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 էջ
...gotten more wisdom than all they, &c. and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit :...and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. — Eccles. i. 2. 13, 14. 16—18. I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold,... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 522 էջ
...gotten more wisdom than all they, &c. and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit:...and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. — Eccles. i. 2. 13, 14. 16—18. I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold,... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 484 էջ
...KNOWLEDGE. SERMON XXV. ECCLES. i. 17, 18. 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 incrcaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. WE have, in this book, an estimate of human life. Most of... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1824 - 458 էջ
...attending Wisdom and Knowledge. And I gave my heart to know w adorn, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom ii much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increase tli sorrow. — ECCLES. i. 17, 18. - 397... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1824 - 526 էջ
...better, if it have not attained the knowledge of thee? since, as the preacher hath most wisely observed," in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow," Eccl. i. 18. O then, set offmy heart from affecting that knowledge whose end is sorrow, and fix it... | |
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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. 
