...an inward source of joy ; but the carnal man who roves abroad for happiness, is never satisfied. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." The best of his pleasures perish in his using. Solomon says, " As the crackling of thorns under a pot,...

...the sea, yet the sea is not fall. Unto the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." Such were the reflections of the wisest of the ancient Jews. Whence are rivers produced ? whence do...

...the God of nature has distributed the blessing of reason and reflection ? Can it be otherwise where " the eye is not satisfied with " seeing nor the ear with hearing?" The most untrained savage must make the observation of the Arab, when his mind informs forms him that,...

...upon the vanity of die world, from Eccles. i. 8. All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. " Persons please themselves beforehand (says Mr. Tong) with hopes of being greatly satisfied when they...

...fruitless labour which is taken in seeking satisfaction from objects which only affect the senses, since the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, ver. 8. 3. From the continual vicissitudes and return of the same things, which having not only once,...

...every rational creature, unless while it is suspended by some stronger desire. And it is insatiable ; " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing :" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge that can be conveyed into it. And it is planted in...

...of what kind soever, they be ; and the reason is, because they are not commensurate to its desires ; The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, Eccles. i. 8. That which is wanting cannot be numbered, ver. 15. • 2. We cannot rationally suppose...

...hand are pleasures for evermore." Some things entertain one faculty, and some anotbee, bnt ^fln.iMBe:. the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. No indeed: SATISFYING is a won! too big for creature comforts — for any of them — for all of them...

...happiness of the next. The most pleasant things here cannot satisfy the narrow faculties of sense: " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing;" but the favour of God, and the blessed effects of it, pass all understanding, our most comprehensive...

...mind ; for nothing fills, much less distends the soul, but God. Whence as Solomon declares, " That the eye is not " satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" so of knowledge itself, he says, " God hath made all things beau" tiful in their seasons : also...