| Joseph John Gurney - 1833 - 572 pagina’s
...instinctive spirit of beasts, when, in his preaching, he cried, saying, " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Eccl. iii, 21 . So again, in describing the death of man, he says, " Then shall the dust return... | |
| Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pagina’s
...All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? 22 Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works;... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pagina’s
...they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast. Who knowtth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Ecoles, iii. 18, 19, 21. But we should widely mistake the import of such passages, should we infer... | |
| James Hogg - 1834 - 352 pagina’s
...them. Solomon is of the same opinion, and very explicit on this point: " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward into the earth ?" I say, then, seriously, and I hope without offence, that beasts have souls; and that... | |
| Sheffield dialect - 1834 - 120 pagina’s
...'—Gemini makes him say, " Who knoweth the spirit of man that it goeth upward."" Solomon continues, " and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth." Gemini continues, " and the spirit of the beast that it goeth downward to the earth." Our readers will... | |
| William Allen (of Peel.) - 1835 - 702 pagina’s
...are of all men most miserable." If there were no difference in the destinations of " the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth," how forlorn and wretched would our condition be ! The one or the other of these reflections has occurred... | |
| Charles James Burton - 1836 - 328 pagina’s
...Psalmist, "Thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust " — and the Preacher, " Who knoweth the spirit of a man that goeth upward,...spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth f " We do not take upon us to say what would have been the ultimate condition, or manner of the change,... | |
| Joseph Baylis - 1836 - 486 pagina’s
...that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast." For, " who (says the objector) knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works;... | |
| John Crook (of Lyon's inn.) - 1836 - 114 pagina’s
...All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?" — (Ecclesiastes iii. 18 to 21.) 81. "Let all things be done decently and in order."— (1 Corinthians... | |
| William Warburton - 1837 - 744 pagina’s
...the book of Ecclesiastes, which speaks their sentiments. Who knoweth, says this author, the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?\ And again: " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, AND THE SPIBIT SHALL BKTUBN UNTO... | |
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