...home, While his eye with rapture glistens, Burns to say, — " I come, I come." EMPTY AND FLEETING. " Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity." Eccl. i. 2. AH, how empty, ah, how fleeting, Is the life of mortal man ! Like the flow of rapid river,...

...commentary upon this expression. You all remember the opening of that Book to which Eccles. i. 2. 1 refer. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities; all is vanity. And you know well the sort of topics with which that Book abounds. The vanity of which it complains is...

...I. THE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Ecclesiastes, chapter i. verse 1. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Verse 2. I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more...

...flattering light." " Fading, changing, perishing, dying," may be appropriately inscribed upon them all. " Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity " (Eccles. i. 2) ; mere bubbles, unsubstantial shadows, unsatisfying things ! But, in contrast with...

...after knou-kdgc unsalis»g: fy<«sTHE words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 2 he son of man which shall be made as grass ; 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? 4 One generation passeth...

...good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver. Proverbs 22:1 ^Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all...

...of the Book of Ecclesiastes (2:1-9): The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 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,...

...are in the handwriting of MR or CR's mother. Tide [untitled] 1 Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith 'Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity' (Ecc. 1:2). In an extended discussion of this Bible verse in SF, CR wrote that it 'amounts to so exquisite...

...pales when one knows that death awaits all. The moral of the book is encapsulated in its beginning: "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" (1:2-3). The narrator elaborates...

...in the gates. Solomon's Elegy on Vanity WORDS OF THE PREACHER, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. 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,...