 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1849 - 76 pages
...intellect. It is the gaining, not the having, LEISURE. 51 knowledge, we are told, which gives delight. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing; the soul does not rest in anything which the intellect can gain for it; it moves on and on, as on a... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Cosmology - 1850 - 684 pages
...gratification of every taste, and amidst the fictitious scenes depicted by the novelist and the poet— " the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." Hence, too, the insatiable desires of the miser in accumulating riches, and the unremitting career... | |
 | Thomas Boston, James Baine - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 376 pages
...creation can never satisfy it ; but it is still crying, give, give, and never says it is enough. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ; that which is crooked cannot be made straight, that which is wanting cannot be numbered." The world... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1850 - 964 pages
...gratification of every taste, and amidst the fictitious scenes depicted by the novelist and the poet — '* the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." Hence, too, the insatiable desires of the miser in accumulating riches, and the unremitting career... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...away, and thither not to hasten where eternal joy abides. 5. " Be mindful of that often-used proverb, ' The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.' Strive, therefore, to withdraw thy heart from the love of the things which are seen, and to transfer... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 532 pages
...gratification of every taste, and amidst the fictitious scenes depicted by the novelist and the poet — *' the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." Hence, too, the insatiable desires of the miser in accumulating riches, and the unremitting career... | |
 | 1851 - 510 pages
...the prophet, and remembered that " he who loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver ;" that the "eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" and that he who had " withheld from hit heart no joy" found all to be "vanity and vexation of spirit."... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 490 pages
...stone That turntrth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. 4-: "THE EYE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SEEING; NOR THE EAR WITH HEARING." WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessing standing by ; Let us, said He, pour on him all... | |
 | Christian poets - Christian poetry, English - 1851 - 470 pages
...stone That turneth all to gold : For that which God doth touch and own Cannot for less be told. 46 "THE EYE IS NOT SATISFIED WITH SEEING; NOR THE EAR WITH HEARING." WHEN God at first made man, Having a glass of blessing standing by ; Let us, said He, pour on him all... | |
 | Rev. Thomas N. Ralston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1851 - 478 pages
...the sun and moon endure." The thirst for a continued pursuit of knowledge appears to be universal. " The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing." The mind is ever on the stretch for knowledge. It would grasp every object, and explore every field,... | |
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the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ;" neither the mind with any degree of knowledge which can be conveyed into it. 
