 | Thomas Halyburton - 1825 - 392 pages
...stranger to light, at least to this light of the Lord, could not but with pleasure enjoy it; for truly " light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This discovery and manifestation was of a much longer continuance, and far more bright than any I ever... | |
 | Josiah Priest - 1825 - 660 pages
...Without it, motion would be dangerous, and rest insipid. True are the words of the Hebrew philosopher, "Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The svfferings nf Theda — Account of St. Paulis penon. [Translated from the Greek.] THE PREFACE.... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 7 ; 0 lobehold the sun : 8 But if a man live many mis, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...whether t shall 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 (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...extraordinary 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 sun.] By ' light, and beholding the sun,' we are to understand ' the time of this present life/ as is evident... | |
 | 1826 - 478 pages
...and a more 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 - 1826 - 374 pages
...the 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... | |
 | 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 - 450 pages
...derived from ;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
...While 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... | |
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