 | 1843 - 1068 pages
...spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.' — /1// vanily and vexation of spirit ! ' All flesh is grass!' " Again — as to the religious man.... | |
 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...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 my heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth ; therefore enjoy pleasure : and, behold,... | |
 | 1843 - 480 pages
...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." Ask the philosopher over his midnight lamp : ask the statesman amid the intricacies of his cabinet:... | |
 | 1844 - 788 pages
...false. Knowledge is a good, and after wisdom we are commanded to seek ; yet what saith the wise man ? " In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." The truth of this assertion has heen cruelly proved during the last century ; nor will the diffusion... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven," and declared as the result of his experience that, " In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increasetli sorrow." Mrs. Heaton holds rather that the " Melancholia " figure is " ' a glorious devil,... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...thus, in the words of the preacher, " the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep," and, " in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow2." But however this may be, at least these outward advantages do not increase our happiness.... | |
 | 1871 - 792 pages
...and we came to the conclusion, as the result of our experiment, which a wise man came to long ago, that "in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." Probably we may be deemed a heretic when we say that reading in these days has become an epicurianism,... | |
 | England - Great Britain - 1845 - 478 pages
...Divine grace. 1021.] PROMOTION OP LAUD. 05 Bacon is a striking exemplification of the sacred truth, that in " much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow ;" and that the excellency of knowledge is only this, that "wisdom giveth life to him that hath it,"... | |
 | William Bridge - Theology - 1845 - 450 pages
...happiness cannot consist therein. Or, Will ye instance in knowledge, wit and wisdom. Solomon tells you, that " in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow," Eccles. i. Surely, therefore, our happiness cannot consist therein. Or, Will ye instance in moral virtues,... | |
 | 1872 - 812 pages
...man of ordinary intelligence, but the wisest and most richly gifted spirit of his times, who said, "In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." But the pleasures of sense are still more short-lived than even those of the intellect ; they cannot... | |
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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. 
