 | David Durell - Bible - 1772 - 326 pages
...in Point of Morals the wife has no Advantage over the poor who knows and pradtifes his Duty. V. 9. Better is the Sight of the Eyes, than the Wandering of the DeJlre : — jyfl: Y?nQ D»:»y nmo SIB] Rather — BETTER is THE SIGHT OF THE EYES THAN THE PURSUIT... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...Voj.. V. M and ha/ifiy than wealthy misers : or if it be taken ai a question, the 9 answer follows ; Better [is] the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of the desire : this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit ; it is better that a man should take u/i ivilh that... | |
 | Richard Steele - Business ethics - 1807 - 238 pages
..."give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me, £#c. Prov. xxx. 7, 9. " Better is the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of the desire. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit. See there be many things that increase vanity, what is... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...hath the wise more than the fool ? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living : 9 ^f Better is the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of .• the desire : this is also vanity and vexanon of spirit. 10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 pages
...rich, more than the poor man, that knows how to live ? His superfluity is nothing to his life. VI. 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. It is far better, for a man to enjoy that present good which is before his eyes, than to discruciate... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...rich, more than the poor man, that knows how to live ? His superfluity is nothing to his life. VI. 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. It is far better, for a man to enjoy that present good which is before his eyes, than to dismiciate... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 556 pages
...to be contented therewith, is incomparably the wiser and the happier man. See Annot. [f] Ver. 9. f Better is the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of the desire : this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. ,] f It being much better to enjoy what a man hath at... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...live decently and discreetly amongst men, ch. iv. 15; Isai. xlii. 5 ; Ps. Ivi. 13; ch. vii. 12. 9. ^[ Better is the sight of the eyes, than the wandering of the desire : this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. By " the sight of the eyes," he means, things present... | |
 | Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 614 pages
...what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poof; that knoweth to walk before the living ? 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known... | |
 | Bible - 1819 - 948 pages
...what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living? , 9 them die and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry wi : this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 10 That -,hich h.->th been is named already, and it is... | |
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Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. 
