 | Maria Jane Jewsbury - Conduct of life - 1834 - 268 pages
...knowledge; but 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
...nature is 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 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.'1 This we all find by daily experience, and so do we too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pages
...of miles in a 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... | |
 | Perry Tilleraas - Self-Help - 1988 - 404 pages
...honest. I will be honest with myself, my close friends, other people, and my Higher Power. Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes The saints and sages, and the many people who have had near death experiences talk... | |
 | Rabbeinu Yonah - Religion - 1967 - 406 pages
...years might be more successful or just as successful as his earlier ones. Continuing, he says, "And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun" (Ecclesiastes II : 7). Here he resumes speaking of the days of old age, which he has compared to evening.... | |
 | Deborah Pryor - Drama - 1992 - 36 pages
...GOWDIE. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ... (She sits on the bed. Her reciting trails off. She toys with the charms on the bedposts, then flips... | |
 | Carl J. Hansen, Steven D Kawaler - Science - 1999 - 472 pages
...Lifshitz, EM 1958, Statistical Physics (London: Pergamon). 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes 11:7 On the other hand, / hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm red-headed.... | |
 | I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor - Philosophy - 1994 - 318 pages
...his original problem, Qohelet can afford to conclude on a confident, even triumphant note: "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: for if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all ... Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and... | |
 | David Strong - Political Science - 1995 - 268 pages
...shall be many, we are turned to things in their own right, the matter-of-factness of things. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."15 But Ecclesiastes comes from a pretechnological (premodern) period and relies on a different... | |
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