 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?  London Society - Side 53redigeret af - 1880Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1848 - 642 sider
..."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?" Neither is the more rational pursuit of human l-nowledye found to secure rest to the soul. Nay, the... | |
 | 1848 - 530 sider
...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? I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom ; aud to lay... | |
 | 1849 - 788 sider
...to now, I will prove thce with mirth ; therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also i? vanity. ' I said of laughter, It is mad ; and of mirth, What doeth it 1 3 I sought in my heari to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay... | |
 | 1849 - 786 sider
...to now, I will prove thee with mirth ; therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also i? vanity. * I said of laughter, It is mad ; and of mirth, What doeth it 1 3 I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom ; and to lay... | |
 | Abraham Belais - 1850 - 84 sider
...particularly of that which the eye seeth, and the heart desireth, but even this I found to be vanity. 2 " I said of laughter, it is mad ! and of mirth what doeth it ?" The Preacher here alludes to a particular passion to which the root pnt? in Scripture applies, as... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1850 - 570 sider
...me in Jerusalem. In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. I said of laughter, It is mad : and of mirth, What doeth it ? He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver ; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1850 - 496 sider
...for the heart ache ; and from actual experience, and in the language of heart-stricken feeling, he said of laughter it is mad ; and of mirth, what doeth it? — for he found that even in laughter the heart is sorrowful ; and the end of such mirth only sadness.... | |
 | 1851 - 282 sider
...that to bs happy a man must be solemn ; and that the difference is small between milth and madness ? "I said of laughter, It is mad ; and of mirth, What doeth it?" These people are sprightly, but, at the same time, they are religious ; not merely in word, but in... | |
 | Walter Lawry - 1851 - 236 sider
...that to be happy a man must be solemn ; and that the difference is small between mirth and madness ? "I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What doeth it?" These people are sprightly, but, at the same time, they are religious ; not merely in word, but in... | |
 | François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1851 - 142 sider
...then all will wear a changed aspect, and your peace no man taketh from you. ON DECEITFUL PLEASURES. " I said of laughter, it is mad : and of mirth, what doeth it?" — ECCLES. ii. 2. THE joy of the world is like that of a delirious man, or of one who laughs in his... | |
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