 | Brigid Hains - 2002 - 272 דפים
...life. Flynn's coneluding sentence rings with prophetic tones of degeneracy as it echoes Ecclesiastes: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities: all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away... | |
 | Louis A. DeCaro - 2002 - 349 דפים
...question of time—of a very short time." 9 8 The Pursuit of Success and the Disappointments of Providence Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? —Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 By 1835,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 180 דפים
...wanton: playful. 20 vanity: the insubstantiality of worldly pleasures; the Friar remembers his profession ('Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity', Ecclesiastes 1:2). 21 ghostly confessor: spiritual father; 'confessor' is stressed on the first syllable.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 2002 - 332 דפים
...appalling and complete. The interest is awfully deep and rapid. To struggle with it 1 See Ecclesiastes 1:2 ("Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity") and 7:2 ("It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting; for that... | |
 | 2003 - 322 דפים
...things; hold fast that which is good. / Thessalonians 5:21. (Prove in the sense of "test.") VANITY 6 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away,... | |
 | Keith Bender - 2003 - 370 דפים
...OF FAILURE; WISDOM IS THE ABSENCE OF FEAR AND A BEACON OF ENLIGHTENMANT. 24 THE WOLVES AND THE SHEEP Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1: 2 With Jim Baker's downfall, all construction stopped, A new high-rise hotel of 500... | |
 | Vincent Carretta - 1996 - 416 דפים
...Trafficking: transporting. 28. Hogsheads: casks capable of holding sixty-three gallons. 29. Ecclesiates 1:2-5: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity! What profit hath a man of all his labour which he hath taken under the sun? One generation passeth... | |
 | Robert Silverberg - 2003 - 584 דפים
...the same thoughts, felt similarly. I switched on my desk lamp and sought King James amidst my books. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man... My progress seemed to startle M'Cwyie. She peered at me, like Sartre's Other,... | |
 | Matt Braun - 2007 - 256 דפים
...getting started. Tallman relaxed and felt himself growing again in the grip of her youthful lips. EIGHT Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity!'" Vivian chanted at the congregation of the Cuero Baptist Church. Almost to her surprise, Sheridan Garwood... | |
 | Benjamin Katz - 2004 - 354 דפים
...classical voice forcefully bringing the message of the futility of human endeavour in such a world-reality. "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity". "What profit hath a man of his labour which he taketh under the sun?" "One generation passeth away,... | |
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Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 
