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...apocryphal writer : " The thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the...earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth on many things. Hardly do we guess aright, at things that are upon earth ; and with labour do we find...

...luxurious one, may, after any such meal, feel the force and energy of the above-cited description — ' The corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind.' The heat and heaviness caused in the body by repletion induce, for a time, an uneasiness and dullness...

...to another sleep ;— the soul seeming not to be thoroughly awake here, but, as it were, soporated with the dull steams and opiatic vapours of this gross body. For thus the author of the Book of Wisdom, b "The corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the...

...Apocryphal writer : " The thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the...weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things. Hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that...

...Lord is? For the " thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncer" tain ; for the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the...weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things ; " and hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with " labor do we find the things...

...is not in us."f " The thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain ; for the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind."* But, let us look upwards, in hope, unto our God ! — unto Him who made us, — unto Him who created...

...philosophers of Greece and Rome; he practically refuses to acknowledge the truth that (Wisdom ix. 15, 17) "the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and...earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth on many things;" or, with Solomon, he would have exclaimed, " Thy counsel, O God, who hath known, except...

...aX\ov VKVOV, to be raised up to a second > sleep ; or to be entombed again in living sepulchres? "For, the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the...weigheth down the mind, that museth upon many things." Wherefore, we must needs explode that old Jewish conceit, commonly entertained amongst the rabbinical...

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