...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....

...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:...

...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 of...

...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....

...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,...

...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,"...

...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...

...contained in the passage under consideration, when its true meaning is developed. He had said before, that in " much wisdom is much grief; and he that "increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." He had represented all the joy resulting from self-indulgence, the only good,as he affirms,left to...

...know wisdom, and to know madness and folly : I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. 18 For rd, separating themselves from his worship, have AM 3298 BC 706. down in, for my p * Heb. had teen natch. — —t Chap. il. 3, 12 ; vii. 23, 25 ; 1 TheM. v. 21. iChap. xii. 12. fore...

...pursuit of it; that he exhausted the learning of his time, and finding, like the Jewish sage, that " in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow," fell into a discontent and bitterness of soul. The " much grief " of the sage proceeded from the feeling...