 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...succeed not, yet another may ; and thou knowest not which of them may speed the best. XI. 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : Indeed life is sweet, and light gives cheerfulness unto our life ; it is a comfortable thing to enjoy... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Calendars - 1808 - 300 pages
...which exists contributes to their support ! Wf. at is more cheering than light! Truly, the light i' sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Its rays fill the whole concave of heaven, and throughout the day the eye is surrounded on all sides... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 626 pages
...of those, that are in God ! they are still in Light. Truly the light is sweet, saith wise Solomon; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: 'as, on the contrary, it is a woeful and disconsolate estate to live in any sin. This is no other,... | |
 | 1809 - 480 pages
...what is the way of the spirit, even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. 7" Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live marfy years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...harbinger of greater, and nobler joys. FOR THE BLIND. SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XL VERSE VII. Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the principles... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1809 - 456 pages
...dominion,; FOR THE BLIND. :«i••* , i:'• .: .• ,T SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XL VERSE VII. Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, • IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the principles... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 416 pages
...be in their foreheads." . 7. Here we need the vicissitudes of day and night for labor and rest. The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. The night, though favorable to repose, is, however, a gloomy season. The gloom we endeavor to dispel by... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...examine them. We see and admire the light of the day; and we may say with the wise man, " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But this is the light of the eye : it is not the light of the mind : Christ is that light ; and therefore... | |
 | Christian biography - 1811 - 330 pages
...Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experience, that "truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Were we to be shut up for a short time in total darkness, we should doubtless perceive a greater force... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...extraordinary blessings upon thy family, Mat. x. 41, 42; Heb. xiii. 2; 1 Kings xvii. 13 — 16. 7. ^[ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. By light, and beholding the sun, we are to understand the period of this present life, as is evident... | |
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