 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 640 pages
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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 Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...union. 20S . THE AMERICAN [L«won 88. 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,... | |
 | John Brown - Lord's Supper - 1823 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 pages
...the words of the wise king of Israel sink deep into their hearts — " Truly, the light is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold " the sun. But if a man li ve many years, and rejoice " in them all ; yet, let him remember the days of dark"... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...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... | |
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