| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...any other interruption of our union. LESSON LXXXVIII. Spring. — DENNIE. " 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, when... | |
| Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pages
...minute. It renders other bodies visible and agreeable. Hence Solomon says, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Eccl. xi. 7. The Lord God, after he had formed the Heavens, and the substance of the earth, he formed... | |
| Christian biography - 1835 - 434 pages
...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 son : but if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness,... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...there is non* mere deligblftü and beautiful in its effects Uutr light, " Truly thelight is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." It diffuses a thousand shades of colouring owr ihe hula, the vales, the rivers, and ihe boumiless deep,... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 636 pages
...the visit of this day-spring from on high is very satisfying and sweet; "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." What more sweet and refreshing than the spring of day to them that watch for the morning ? So here,... | |
| Joseph Hall - Brownists - 1837 - 604 pages
...and we darkness, what interest can we claim in him ? /'or, wltat communion is (here betwixt lit/fit and darkness ? Oh the comfortable and happy condition...light is sweet, saith wise Solomon ; and a pleasant thiny it is for the eyes to behold the sun : as, on the contrary, it is a woeful and disconsolate estate... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 610 pages
...Light and we darkness, what interest can we claim in him ? For, what communion is tlicre betwixt liyht and darkness ? Oh the comfortable and happy condition...Light. Truly the light is sweet, saith wise Solomon ; ami a pleasant thiny it is for the eyes to behold the sun : as, on the contrary, it is a woeful and... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 564 pages
...THINE eyes are lost : — The chief comfort of thy life is gone with them : The light is sweet, saith Solomon ; and a pleasant thing it is, for the eyes to behold the sun ; Eccl. xi. 7. Hath not God done this purposely, that he might set thee off from all earthly objects,... | |
| John Jebb - Christian life - 1837 - 512 pages
...flee before him, and discovers 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... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...another may ; and thou knowest not which of them may speed the best. XI. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Indeed life is sweet, and light gives cheerfulness unto our life ; it is a comfortable thing to enjoy... | |
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