 | 1611 - 360 頁
...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. I SAID in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold,... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 頁
...in general, is grateful to the mind : and yet some kinds of knowledge are painful. Solomon says, " In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Eccl. i. 18. There must be a great deal of pains to get it, and a great deal of care to keep it: the... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 頁
...done under heaven : this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man, to be exercised therewith. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. Because no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. Though a man labour... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 356 頁
...Avis, Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STAR GAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears bis thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1807 - 330 頁
...Avis, Crowds flock to man my Stultifera Navis. SECTION XXXVIII. OF FOOLISH ASTRONOMERS AND STARGAZERS. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. HERE'S one, that rears his thoughts on high, And makes a ledger of the sky ; That he may read the planet's... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 頁
...follow a profound research, have filled literature with mournful echoes of the words of the royal sage, 'In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.' The lives of men of genius have been for the most part a conscious and deliberate realisation of the... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 頁
...know wisdom, and to know madness and f.'lly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 18 tay. 19 He brought" thy people, that I may discern between good : increasctli sorrow. CHAP. II. 1 The vanity of human courses in the works qf/ilccuure. 12 Though the... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 頁
...gifts and graces bestowed upon us, as the apostle does, 1 Cor. xiv. 18; xv. 10 ; 2 Cor. xi. 5, 6. 18. For in much wisdom is much grief ; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. " In much wisdom," or in the abundance of wisdom, as Ps. Ixxii. 7 ; li. 1 ; Prov. xx: 15 ; HON. viii.... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1811 - 562 頁
...Greek verse, that there is a great deal of convenience in not being too wise : ru And the preacher, " In much wisdom is much grief;'. . . " and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth " sorrow."§ Another proof of the weakness of philosophy, isAm>th«that last receipt, to which philosophy in general... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 頁
...wise ? ver. J 5. And again, the eye is not satisfied with seeing^ nor the ear filled with hearing ; for in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow, chap. i. 8, 18. So again, in another place, after he had proposed some rules for the government of... | |
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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. 
