‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.’ These words, along with ‘to everything there is a season’, are among the most famous in the Book of Ecclesiastes, part of the Old Testament. The Bible is full of well-known quotations which are often c...
Psalm 39 The Vanity of Life - For the leader, for Jeduthun. A psalm of David. I - I said, “I will watch my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will
p. 575 Although Becky is always denounced as avaricious and untrustworthy, the case is made that she is not alone in her outlook. This is made more specific here, as it is implied that her lowly class position means that she is deemed a worse sinner than those with greater wealth and ...
woman thought that the secret might keep, and indeed, being by no means so much interested about anybody’s welfare as about her own, she had a great number of things pertaining to herself to consider, and which concerned her a great deal more than Major Dobbin’s happiness in this life...
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singularStrong's Hebrew 120: 1) man, mankind 1a) man, human being 1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) 1c) Adam, first man 1d) city in Jordan valley Parallel Strong'sBerean Study BibleFor the more words, the more ...
one of the very few things on which all those texts are very firm is a continual incitement to violence and intolerance. that's consistent in the bible and the koran and the torah, all of the supposed holy books of the desert monotheisms. but only the muslims have responded with violence...
” With such a partner Dobbin thought he would not mind Siberia–and, strange to say, this absurd and utterly imprudent young fellow never for a moment considered that the want of means to keep a nice carriage and horses, and of an income which should enable its possessors to entertain ...
gentleman. For though he said his mind would be easy, the means which he had taken to secure quiet did not seem to have succeeded as yet, and the events of the past two days had visibly shattered him.
“Most linguists agree it comes from the Latin ‘camera,’ which means ‘a device used to take a photograph.’ And of course, the best photographs are not of individuals, but of groups of happy friends, who love each other deeply.” This book is contraband. In the world...
Amelia thinks, and thinks, and racks her brain, to find some means of increasing the small pittance upon which the household is starving. Can she give lessons in anything? paint card-racks? do fine work? She finds that women are working hard, and better than she can, for twopence a da...