| 1858 - 338 pages
...great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water." It was impossible not to be struck with the coincidence. The other incident was truly... | |
| John Murray (Firm), Josias Leslie Porter - 1858 - 370 pages
...great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits ; I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." (ii. 4, 5.) There is now in... | |
| Matthias Claudius - 1859 - 178 pages
...affectation : I have done this thing and that thing, " have builded me houses, planted me vineyards, made me gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits, have had servants and maidens, gathered also silver and gold, got men-singers and womensingers, and... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1859 - 384 pages
...Behold ! this also is vanity. I made great works, built houses, planted vineyards, made gardens ,»tid orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits. I procured servants and maidens ; I gathered silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings. I obtained... | |
| Josiah Wright - 1860 - 404 pages
...its banks, " I planted me," says the Preacher, " vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees."1 But on crossing the next ridge,... | |
| James Bell Forsyth - 1861 - 216 pages
...me great works; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." — Ecclesiastes, ii. 4. From... | |
| Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1862 - 504 pages
...Solomon seems to have imitated this practice, for he tells us in the Book of Ecclesiastes, that he made " gardens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits," and adds, that he made also " pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees."... | |
| Julius Lloyd - 1862 - 146 pages
...great works : I builded new houses: I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: I got me servants and maidens,... | |
| Samuel Davidson - 1862 - 506 pages
...great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards ; I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees ; I got me servants and maidens,... | |
| Mary Fawler Maude - 1862 - 610 pages
...tanks to hoard the rain water that fell in the winter : — " I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits : I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees " (Eccles. ii. 5, 6). The following... | |
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