 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...whatever to commend it : it is utterly destitute of every good quality : whereas " light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun*." And precisely thus does piety approve itself to every beholder ; whilst a neglect of God presents nothing... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. ^f 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : ^f 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,... | |
 | John Harrison Curtis - Cataract - 1833 - 270 pages
...constipation ought always to be avoided. CHAPTER V. LIGHT.* " LIGHT," said the wisest of men, "is sweet; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The truth of this few will dispute, though perhaps only those who have at some period of their life... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...nature there is none more delightful and beautiful in its effects than light. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." It diffuses a thousand shades of colouring over the hills, the vales, the rivers, and the boundless... | |
 | William Jay - Calendars - 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... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Dissenters, Religious - 1833 - 774 pages
...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;... | |
 | Charles Baker - Bible - 1833 - 132 pages
...and sleep. After we have slept, we may say when we arise from our beds, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."J When God had created light, he called the light day; and he called the darkness night. This... | |
 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1834 - 268 pages
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...enlightened by his presence, it is also cheered by its 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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - Christianity - 1834 - 372 pages
...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.'1 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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