 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 pages
...this is a pleasure to the soul that understands itself, and its own true interest. Truly the liyht is sweet, and a pleasant thing it Is for the eyes to behold the tun, (Eccl. xi. 7.) it rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. Hence, light is often put for joy and comfort;... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...with those who are still in it. O tell them what yon see and enjoy. Tell them light is sweet and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun of Righteousness. It would not indeed be kind to do this unless there was hope for them. But there... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - 1834 - 268 pages
...even his knowledge; but he never speaks a word against simple natural pleasures — "Truly," saith he, "the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." I am well, too well aware, that when all is said and done, many minds will remain essentially sad-thoughted... | |
 | Rabbeinu Yonah - 1967 - 406 pages
...years might be more successful or just as successful as his earlier ones. Continuing, he says, "And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun" (Ecclesiastes II : 7). Here he resumes speaking of the days of old age, which he has compared to evening.... | |
 | Deborah Pryor - 1992 - 36 pages
...GOWDIE. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ... (She sits on the bed. Her reciting trails off. She toys with the charms on the bedposts, then flips... | |
 | Carl J. Hansen, Steven D Kawaler - 1999 - 472 pages
...and Lifshitz, EM 1958, Statistical Physics (London: Pergamon). 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes 11:7 On the other hand, / hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm red-headed.... | |
 | I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor - 1994 - 318 pages
...satisfactorily solved his original problem, Qohelet can afford to conclude on a confident, even triumphant note: "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: for if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all ... Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 pages
...darkness shall be many, we are turned to things in their own right, the matter-of-factness of things. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."15 But Ecclesiastes comes from a pretechnological (premodern) period and relies on a different... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 pages
...thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 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... | |
 | Max Gauna - 1996 - 306 pages
...Rabelais's intentions here, it is not immediately obvious. I think the quotation from Ecclesiastes—"Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun"—has to do with the importance of sunlight for Diogenes as evinced by the most celebrated of... | |
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