...learned PRIMATE, &c. &c. &c. will be foremoft to acknowledge the difficulty of feizing the true Ipirit of a detached quotation, which is often diametrically...by PAUL : " Let us eat and " drink, for to-morrow we die."— Thefoolijb Atheift, " may fay openly with DAVID — " There is no GOD" — and the gloomy...

...have to enjoy them, when he could not ] Or it may refer to the former part of the preceding verse, " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and enjoy good in his labour." As by his own experience he had proved the vanity and vexation of the...

...vanity to set their hearts upon it, apd deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there...

...vanity to set their hearts upon it, and deprive themselves of present good for it. Eccles. ii. 24. " There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labours ;" and iii. 12, 13, " 1 know that there...

...and trouble is his occupation ; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This, also, is 24 vanity. There is nothing better for a man than to eat, and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labor. But this, 25 as I have seen, comes from the hand of God....

...life and all the labour which he had taken under the sun (ch. ii. 18). He thereupon concludes, that there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and make his soul enjoy the fruit of his labour (ch. ii. 26). He observes, however, that there is a...

...hates life and all the labour which he had taken under the sun (ii, 1s). He thereupon concludes, that there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink and make his soul enjoy the fruit of his labour (ii, 26). He observes, however, that there is a time...

...is sowing to the flesh. The red dot on his Dose, his amorous double chin." To be sure, Solomon says there is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of lus labour, for this is his portion ; but afterwards he corrects himself, and...

...grief, and his occupation trouble ; even in the night his 24 heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity. There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and let his soul enjoy good in his labor. But this, as I have seen, cometh 25 from the hand of God....

...competent to judge say that nearly as much injury comes to health by over-eating as by over-drinking. "There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink" — in moderation. There is nothing worse than to go, habitually, to excess. Gold pieces are good things...