 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1895 - 590 σελίδες
...fancy, that genius naturally turns to the sun, echoing in its heart the saying of King Solomon that "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." PAULINE W. ROOSE. €l)r font flurak. i. THEY were days to be remembered, When... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 302 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1869
...vol. ii., p. 483. f QuintU. 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... | |
 | William Mason - 1803 - 402 σελίδες
...we may glory of his work, Then were the disciples glad zvhen they satv the Lord.... John xx. 20. " TRULY the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."....Eccles. xi. 7. But, O how much more sweet and pleasant to see the light and... | |
 | Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 σελίδες
...might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, not wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold thesuu: but if a man live many years, and rejoice ia them all; yet let him remember the days... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 σελίδες
...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,... | |
 | 1806 - 642 σελίδες
...each pupil is risen and drest, he falls upon his knees and utters the following ejaculation : O God ! truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Enlighten my mind, that I may see my whole Jut\, and aid me to pursue it all the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1806 - 448 σελίδες
...shall be in their foreheads." 7. Here we need the vicissitudes of day and night for labor and rest. The light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. The night, though favorable to repose, is, however, a gloomy season. The gloom we... | |
 | 1807 - 570 σελίδες
...knowest not whether shall 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - 452 σελίδες
...and the harbinger of greater, and nobler joys. FOR THE BLIND SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XI. VERSE VII. Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. IP any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel... | |
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reckoned, in particular, on my aunt's living many years ; she was a very hearty old woman. But she was a mere skeleton before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a... 
