 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Devotional exercises - 1800 - 308 pages
...nor disdains to watch over them and supply their wants ? What is there more pleasant than light ? " Truly the light is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes " to behold the sun." Its rays fill all the immense expanse of the heavens ; and, as long as day lasts, the eye is surrounded... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...knowledge of God in Christ, is pleasant. It is to the soul what the light of the sun is to the body. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." St. Paul, who was blessed with this knowledge, "counted all things but loss for the excellency of it;"... | |
 | 1869
...ii., p. 483. t Quintil. xi. B. 2. irony we have a striking illustration in Eccles. xi. 7 — 10: " 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... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor, wisdom, in the grave, whither thou gogst. 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,... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 476 pages
...youth and age, in prosperity and adversity, be always doing good, and depc?id upon God for the issue. 7 Truly the light [is] sweet ; and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun ; life and the -comforts of it are very 8 agreeable : But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...whether shall prosper, prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 7 ^f 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... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pages
...endeavours succeed not, yet 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...harbinger of greater, and nobler joys. FOR THE BLIN D. SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XI. VERSE VII. • "• Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant , thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. . t . t IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons, English - 1809 - 456 pages
...and dominion,; FOR THE BLIND. :Ģi••* , i:'• .: .• ,T SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XL VERSE VII. Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, • IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the principles... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 502 pages
...objects, and examine them. We see and admire the light of the day; and we may say with the wise man, " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But this is the light of the eye : it is not the light of the mind : Christ is that light ; and therefore... | |
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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. 
