...affected at their continued success ; so that I can hardly refrain from exclaiming with one of old, ' I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and on the side of the oppressors there was power, but...

...words of Solomon recorded in Ecclesiastes seem to be direct to our present subject. " So I turned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under...had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet to die." The three following ideas are evidently...

...preventing it. " I considered," says he, "all the op" pressions that are done under the sun ; and beheld " the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had...oppressors " there was power, but they had no comforter"." The conclusion which king Solomon drew from what he saw of this kind under the sun, must be adopted...

...broken, and our hearts are disconsolate; we may adopt the sentiments of the wise man, and exclaim, " when I returned and. considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; then I praised the dead which...

...people? " I found Israel labouring, groaning, expiring in the furnace. I beheld the tears of them that were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their -op* pressors there was power, but they had no comforter. Tl;eir cry reached heaven. He who made them...

...INCREASED UNTO MEN BY OPPRESSION. CHAP. IV. 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions of mankind that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears...side of their oppressors [there was] power ; but they (ie the 2 oppressed) had no comforter. Wherefore, if this world and human pursuits are to be regarded...

...applied to the case of »laves and servants in too many instances : • — " Behold die tears of such ts were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on...oppressors there was power ; but they had no comforter.", Eccl. iv. 1. VI. Good masters and mistresses act with liberality towards their servants, especially...

...Oppressor arm'd with pow'r ? Not one presum'd To shew ev'n pity to the sore.distress'd.* CHAPTER IV. a [1] So I returned, and considered all the oppressions...side of their oppressors there was power; but they hod no comforter.* b Struck with the deepest grief, how blest, I cry'd, Are those, who from Life's...

...of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. I considered all the oppressions that are done under...and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressor there was power. There is one alone, and there is not a second, he hath neither child nor...

...man since his time say, " I considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and beheld the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had...and on the side of their oppressors there was power to relieve their miseries, but they had no comforter. I saw the place of judgment that wickedness was...