 | William Smyth - 1840 - 54 էջ
...possessions of great and small cattle, gathered silver and gold, got men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts, (I cannot conceive how this part of the experiment failed,) but all in vain ; for, " behold,'1 he says,... | |
 | John Goodwin - 1840 - 774 էջ
...in this kind, verses 3 — 6, &c. he coneludes from the said inventory, or survey, verse 9, thus : "So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem ;" adding, " also my wisdom remained with me," in the original, stood by me, or to me, meaning, that... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 388 էջ
...gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces : I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy. Then I... | |
 | Thomas Hirst - 1841 - 380 էջ
...sanguine mind had pictured in the visions of hope ; he says, " I got me men-singers, and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts." I * See Home's Introduction, vol. IV., pp. 113 — 115, where other authorities are added in confirmation... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1841 - 448 էջ
...servants and maidens ; I got me men-singers and women- singers, and the delights of the sons of men. So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in the land." Alas ! brethren, if this, and no other, is the foundation laid up in store, it is no good... | |
 | 1745 - 518 էջ
...gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments,...sorts. So I was great, and increased more than all that went before me in Jerusalem : also, my wisdom remained with me, and whatsoever mine eyes desired I... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 էջ
...possessions of great and small cattle, ice. also silver and gold, &c. I got me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts &c. whatsoever mine eyes desired, 1 kept not from them : I withheld no! mine heart from any joy, &c.... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 էջ
...gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces : I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts. 9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem : also my wisdom remained... | |
 | 1842 - 488 էջ
...CUSTOMS AND LITERATURE. No. II. DELIGHTS OF THE SONS OF MEN. "I OAT me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts," Eccles. ii. 8. Solomon says, at the tenth verse, " I withheld not my heart from any joy," by which... | |
 | Harriet Newell Cook - 1842 - 138 էջ
...himself speaks of his riches, and after telling us of some of his treasures, he says : " Whatsoever my eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy." Perhaps you think he must have been perfectly happy, if any man in this world ever was ; but what does... | |
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So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiceth in all my labour; and this... 
