...(PROTECTIVE.) " I gave my heart to know wtsdom, and to know madness and folly¡ . . , , " I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure; . . . " I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine (yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom),...

...angry cherubs guard ? BOOK II.— PLEASURE. Texts chiefly alluded to in Book II. ' I said in my own q pteasure." — ECCLES. cknii. ii. i-cr. i. - 1 mado me great works, I builded me houses, I ptanted...

...gave my heart to search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven. Then I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth: therefore enjoy is wanting be supplied ?"— i. 16. " Shall I therefore hate life, because anything wrought under the...

...Which flaming swords and angry cherubs guard. « TEXTS CHIEFLY ALLUDED TO IN BOOK n. I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth ; therefore enjoy pleasure. Ecclesiastes, ii. 1. I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards,...

...This is manifest from his own description of the zest with which he pursued the matter — " I said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth. I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards,...

...know not to whom. 24 Nothiny better than joy in our lahour; but that is God's yift. I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold, this also is vanity. 2 I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What doeth...

...laughter the heart is sorrowful, and th g end of that mirth is heaviness. ECCLESIASTES II. 1. 2. 7 said in my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold this also is vanity. I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doth it...

...Thy prayers and tears are now too late To save thee from the sinner's fate." CHAPTEE III. " I said in my heart, go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure; and behold this also is vanity." " And whatsoever mine eye desired I kept not from them,...

...know not to whom. 24 Nothing better than joy in our labour; but that is God's gift. I SAID in mine pleasure : and, behold, this also is vanity. 2 I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What doeth...

...you have tried all that worldly mirth can do, you will say with the repentant king, " I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure; and behold this also is vanity. I said of laughter, it is mad, and of mirth, what doeth it...