 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...rise, and for the most part only reached Greece from the East) is fully justified in asserting that 'in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.'* ' Life and immortality are brought to light (alone) by the gospel.'f This is a doctrine that cannot... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Christian education - 1829 - 738 pages
...experience of wisdom and knowledge, and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly, I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit....and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccles. i. 16 — 18. How infinitely superior are the true ends, the illumination of the mind with... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Annotations (Provenance) - 1830 - 368 pages
...experience of wisdom and knowledge, and I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly, I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit....and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Eccles. i. 16—18. How infinitely superior are the true ends, the illumination of the mind with divine... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 630 pages
...increaseth sorrow. Eccles. i. 17, 18. " And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit....he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." But the delight which the sight of God affords to the soul, brings no bitterness with it. there is... | |
 | John Webster Morris - Baptists - 1830 - 342 pages
...others, to explain or defend it. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. 1 gave my heart to know wisdom : 1 perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For...and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. Some are pressing me to write more largely on the mediation of Christ ; and others, to review the second... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...sorrow. Eccles. i. 17, 18. " And I pave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : 1 perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For...he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." But the delight which the sight of God affords to the sonl, brings no bitterness with it, there is... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1850 - 332 pages
...if it have not attained the knowledge of thee ? since, as the preacher hath most wisely observed, " In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow," Eccles. i. 18. O then, set off my heart from affecting that knowledge whose end is sorrow, and fix... | |
 | James Yonge - Bible - 1831 - 482 pages
...myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all (ie both wise and foolish) : then said I in my heart, as it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me, and why was I then more wise ? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity." Surely,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1832 - 330 pages
...apply our hearts to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth, we shall perceive that this also is vexation of spirit : For in much...and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. 2 Neither can a man find out the work that is done under the sun. Because though a man labour to seek... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...called " wisdom." Yet it must be confessed, that there is much truth in that observation of Solomon, " In much wisdom is much grief : and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow»." For " much study is undoubtedly a weariness to the flesh V and it is often followed by painful disappointment.... | |
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And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. 
