 | Theology - 1826 - 478 pages
...solemn account will they have to give before the supreme tribunal. Hence says Solomon : " 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 : for... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - Sermons - 1826 - 374 pages
...shining light, more and more unto the perfect day.—frov. iv. ]S. "TRDLY (says the wise man,) the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." A transition from a state of darkness to a state of light, how desirable and important ! If natural... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...tu<*>. prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be '***' alike good. 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 many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 506 pages
...blessings upon thy family. (Matth. x. 14, 42. Heb. xiii. 2. 1 Kings xvii. 13—16) Ver. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the s«».] By ' light, and beholding the sun,' we are to understand ' the time of this present life,'... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1826 - 680 pages
...Theocritus, or Drummond — but this passage from Ecclesiastes, xi. — 7 : " Truly the light (the morn) is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This example is chosen without taking the trouble to select; it would not be difficult to choose an... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both sltall ¿«alike good . 7 Truly the light w sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - 432 pages
...that shiuel/t more and more unto the perfeet day. — Prov. iv. 1S. "TRULT (says the wise man,) the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to hehold the sun." A transition from a state of darkness to a state of light, how desirahle and important... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...;he ohservation and contemplation of nature that caused the wisest of kings to exclaim, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to hehold the sun." And 1 think there is not a reflecting heing m the world who hath not felt, though... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...all 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 beho'.ii the sun." And the author of " the Spectator" has well observed, that the sun has a particular... | |
 | William Beveridge - Christian life - 1827 - 540 pages
...in the outward. " The light of the eyes," saith the wise man, "rejorceth the heart." " And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This we all find by daily experience, and so do we too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
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