Ecclesiast

They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same.

Chapter 37 2010

"You shall never have seen it just this way/And that is to be your one reward," he wrote in "The Ecclesiast" and, in "Houseboat Days," "but it is the nature of things to be seen only once."

News at Eleven: The trick with [John] Ashbery is to relax. Rus Bowden 2007

Alexicacos in virtue, power, and authority; you, of whom I may truly say what the wise monarch Solomon saith of Moses, that great prophet and captain of Israel, Ecclesiast.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Alexicacos in virtue, power, and authority; you, of whom I may truly say what the wise monarch Solomon saith of Moses, that great prophet and captain of Israel, Ecclesiast.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Ecclesiast 4.12 thatt seldome comes A Better; whie should I + then putt my Widowehood in Jeopardy? the Virgins life is gold, as Clarks vs tell the Widowes siluar, I loue siluar well.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

Once again, the Ecclesiast utters his disillusion, his cruel disappointment, his sense of the utter vanity of existence in the soliloquy of the 'cello in the rhapsody "Schelomo."

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same.

Chapter XXXVII 1913

Or we read the marvellous denunciatory rhetoric of Jeremiah and Isaiah, or the music of the melodious heart-strings of King David; we read the solemn adjuration of the "King Ecclesiast" to remember our Creator in the days of our youth, with its haunting picture of old age: and the loveliness of _The Song of Songs_ passed into our lives forever.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

They were vexed by the brazen law of the Ecclesiast that men die like the beasts of the field and their end is the same.

John Barleycorn Jack London 1896

This demand has gone on increasing from year to year, until we have reached a time when we may say with the Ecclesiast: “Of making of books there is no end.”

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885