 So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.  The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 72by James Gillman - 1838 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1841 - 188 pages
...gain. Were Solomon now alive, he might say as truly as he once did, " So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and,...and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." Truly may we say, • " Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless millions... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...are the Duties of Magistrates: and what they should be negatively, and affirmatively. I CONSIDERED all the oppressions that are done under the sun :...and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. — Eccles. iv. 1. Thou shalt provide out of all the people able men,... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1842 - 696 pages
...dwelling in us! See Phil. 4. 13; 2 Tim. 1. u. The Preacher sheweth 1 So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun :...and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter. -2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living... | |
 | John Campbell - 1842 - 562 pages
...philosopher : " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun ; and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter : on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter ! Wherefore, I praised... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 pages
...your calamity ; I will mock when your tear cometh ; — Proverbs. IV, 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun :...and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — Eeclesiastes. ISAIAH.— Chap. V, ver. 20. Woe unto them that call evil... | |
 | Joseph Williams Blakesley - 1843 - 236 pages
...upon an inspired writer. " I returned," says the Preacher,* " and considered all the oppressions which are done under the sun : and behold the tears of such...and on the side of their oppressors there was power : but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...shall bring him to see what shall be after him? The vanity of riches SO I returned, and considered 68ǧ6 6 but they had no comforter. 2 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living... | |
 | Vera Brittain - 1994 - 676 pages
...describe the situation but the sad, disillusioned words of Ecclesiastes : " So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun :...and on the side of their oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter." And at last I had come to believe that, although men did change slowly,... | |
 | Ben Zion Bokser, Baruch M. Bokser - 1989 - 264 pages
...dismay at the inequity this involved; it is based on a verse in Ecclesiastes: "But I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power, but they... | |
 | Gary B. Nash - 1990 - 240 pages
...oppression, cannot but feel the truth and propriety of Solomon's words. "So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of the oppressors there was power; but they... | |
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