Has been ... is done – i.e., Has happened in the course of nature ... is done by man.

Man is perpetually toiling, yet from all his toil, no lasting result remains. The natural world exhibits a spectacle of unceasing activity, with no…

The thing that has been, it [is that] which shall be

The thing that has been seen and heard is no other than what …

People's hearts and their corruptions are the same now as in the past; their desires, and pursuits, and complaints, still the same. This should lea…