...the very lesson taught us in the Bible, respecting one who lived almost three thousand years ago ? "I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits ; I made me pools of water, to water...

...resources of happiness which the Royal Preacher enumerates : " I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom ; and...houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water...

...of laughter, /( is road : and or mirth, What doeth it? 3 I sought in mine heart 'to give myself unto is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him...e one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a p 4 life. I made me great works; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : 5 I made me gardens and...

...grief. But while walking in Thy fear and love, in cherishing Thy favour and communion, we see what is that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven, all the days of then- life. Whom have we in heaven but Thee? there is none on the earth we desire beside Thee ! Make...

...the wall, enumerates gardening among the pleasures he had tasted in his search after happiness. — " I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards." — Eccles. ii. 14. From Xenophon and other writers we have a few notices of the Persian...

...beholding of them with their eyes 9" And of the vanity of this he has given us his personal testimony—"I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, I made me gardens and orchards, I got me servants and maidens ; I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar...

...in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom." There was taste : "I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : 1 made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools...

...2. I said of laughter,'] Meaning excessive laughter, dissolute and frantick merriment. Bp. Patrick. shall be satisfied with bread. 14 It is naught, it...naught, saith the buyer : but when he is gone his way, f all the days of their life. 4 I made me great works; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards...

...of laughter, it is mad : and of mirth, JVhat doeth it ? 1 sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and...lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that • 1 John ii. 15. good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of...

...good, and which in all its bearings and relations is conducive to the best interests of man? What is that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life ? (ii. 3.J " This is the object of the preacher s inquiry ; and, after discussing various erroneous...