 | English literature - 1844 - 640 pages
...mistake not, is the following text in English from Ecclesiastes, chapter XL, verses 7, 8. Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; Yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | William Beveridge - Christian life - 1821 - 390 pages
...doth in the outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoieeth the heart. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the tun. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and beat of the sun agitate... | |
 | Henry Scougal - Theology, Doctrinal - 1822 - 328 pages
...maketh the darkness flee before him, and discovereth all the beauty and lustre of things. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Nor is it less useful and advantageous for directing our ways, and ordering our several employments... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - Natural history - 1822 - 306 pages
...nature is enlivened. by his presence, it is also cheered by his gifts. " Truly/' says Solomon, " the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." And the author of " The Spectator" has well observed, that the sun has a particular influence on the... | |
 | George Holden - Bible - 1822 - 316 pages
...of beneficence, or whether they both [shall 7 be] alike good. Truly the light of life and prosperity [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun, and to live in 8 the sunshine of delight and abundance. But nevertheless, if a man live many years,... | |
 | John Brown - Lord's Supper - 1823 - 366 pages
...right. Indeed, he is so constituted, that he can have no real rational enjoyment without these. " Truly light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Still more sweet is the perception of truth to the regenerated mind ; still more pleasant is the love... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...or absence, or any other interruption of our union. LESSON LXXXVIII. Sp ring.— DENKIE. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — Ecclesiastes, xi. 7. THE sensitive Gray in a frank letter to his friend West, assures him that,... | |
 | Richard Mant (bp. of Down, Connor and Dromore) - 1824 - 538 pages
...makes my darkness day.'\ Light is often in Scripture expressive of joy or comfort : for " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun/' Eccl. xi. 7- See, amongst other places, Ps. xcvii. 11 ; cxii. 4. We sometimes meet with this image... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...and to survey the blue face of heaven. I felt the beauty of those words of inspiration, ' truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; ' and, simple as they are, they bore to me, in the situation in which disease had placed me, a weight... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...let the sunshine fell on the evil as well as on the good. It is said in his holy word, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," Eccl. xi. 7. And it says also, that in heaven neither sun nor sunshine will be wanted. " There shall... | |
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