 | 1837 - 844 pagina’s
...was just observed, it is no easy task to point out the precise distinction between " the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ¡" yet some of the more peculiar characteristics of rational creatures may in a moment be distinguished.... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1837 - 358 pagina’s
...intelligent reader." —IBID. p. 889. DR. WARDLAW. On Eccles. iii. 21. "'Who knoweth the spirit of man, that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?' " My own opinion is (and it seems amongst other grounds to have some support from the passage before... | |
 | John Dayman - 1837 - 182 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Sheppard - 1837 - 358 pagina’s
...intelligent reader." —IBID. p. 889. DR. WARDLAW. On Eccles. iii. 21. '"Who knoweth the spirit of man, that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?' " My own opinion is (and it seems amongst other grounds to have some support from the passage before... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1837 - 600 pagina’s
...out of the earth were they taken, and to the earth they return. III. 21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? And howsoever they are fully differenced by the soul or spirit, which informcth the man, whereof... | |
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 640 pagina’s
...existence, appears from another passage in the .same book (chap. iii. 21) : " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" Here the " going downward to the earth" plainly denotes the extinction of the brute spirit, in opposition to... | |
 | 1838 - 154 pagina’s
...the blights and mildews in the vegetable creation! EC*], iii. si. Hence, " who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ? " Hence, " In the midst" of the spirit " of life we are in" the spirit of " death: of whom may we... | |
 | John Pring - 1838 - 588 pagina’s
...ask elsewhere the very question that we should be glad to have resolved, " Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth ?" (Eccl. iii. 21.) For it is not permitted to man to look so high or so deep — that is, so far either... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pagina’s
...uselessly because too late) the abuse of the powers which God has given you? " Who knoweth the spirit of man, that goeth upward; and the spirit of the beast, that goeth downward to the earth ?" The beast is as the inert and unconscious movement of the engines which you can command ; and you... | |
 | John Locke - 1838 - 590 pagina’s
...disposed, a thinking immaterial substance; it being, in respect of our notions, not much more remote knoweth the spirit -of a man that goeth upward, and the spirit of a beast that goeth downwards to the earth?' In which places, it is plain, that Solomon applies the... | |
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... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that... 
