 | Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...O that they were wise ; that they understood this; that they would consider their latter end n. 2. 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... | |
 | Cottage - 1825 - 164 pages
...and waters, and to survey the 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... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 478 pages
...and a more solemn account will they have to give before the supreme tribunal. Hence says Solomon : " 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 they... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...whether t shall tu<*>. prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be '***' alike good. 7 ^| Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 944 pages
...extraordinary blessings upon thy family. (Matth. x. 14, 42. Heb. xiii. 2. 1 Kings xvii. 13—16) Ver. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.] By ' light, and beholding the sun,' we are to understand ' the time of this present life/ as is evident... | |
 | Jane Taylor - English essays - 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 - Christian life - 1827 - 544 pages
...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 \ve all find by daily experience, and so do we too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 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, for they... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
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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 they shall be many. 
