 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - 432 pages
...light, 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... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 538 pages
...rejoicing in this world. And this difficulty will be easily resolved, by considering the foregoing verse : Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun. Upon which it follows, But if a man live many years, ie supposing he should... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1827 - 238 pages
...years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many." •- TRULY the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ;" and perhaps the truth of the remark is never felt more forcibly than on a New Year's morning. Not... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1827 - 538 pages
...so be may be likewise from his cheering and refreshing our spirits in the inward man as the Sun does in the outward. " The light of the eyes," saith the wise man, "rejoiceth the heart." " And truly the light is sweet, and a plea-r sant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1827 - 544 pages
...so he may be likewise from his cheering and refreshing our spirits in the inward man as the Sun does in the outward. " The light of the eyes," saith the wise man, "rejoiceth the heart." «« And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pages
...needful, but they will not excuse you for the willing admission of your favourite sin. V. 21—23. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This cheerful, gladdening property of light is so •well known, that the word light is often used... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...and the lift was the light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...may. Every thing here is uncertain. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out. Truth whispers, " 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,... | |
 | 1828 - 1042 pages
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be. alike good. 7 IT h was wroth, and hael a censer in his hand to burn incense : and while he was wroth 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness;... | |
 | Thomas Erskine - 1828 - 282 pages
...embracing, and omnipotent love, is its joyful and satisfying portion through all eternity. " Surely the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Each revealed perfection of God, as it enters the heart of man, goes to form a part of the Christian... | |
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