 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - Počet stránok 456
...and dominion,; FOR THE BLIND. :«i••* , 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 - 1810 - Počet stránok 502
...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... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - Počet stránok 434
...extraordinary blessings upon thy family, Mat. x. 41, 42; Heb. xiii. 2; 1 Kings xvii. 13 — 16. 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 period of this present life, as is evident... | |
 | 1805 - Počet stránok 672
...visible. Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we inow from experience, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." AJJI. K Were we to be shut up for a short time in total darkness, ire should doubtless perceive a greater... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 632
...the goodness of God, so doth pre-eminently that of natural light. Hence it is said in Eccl. xi. 7. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is .for the eyes to behold the sun." During the dark months of November and December, the days were very short, and the occupations of many... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - Počet stránok 500
...orderly and agreeable manner when we exclude ourselves as little as possible from the light of heaven. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.' There is something more than a mere metaphor in speaking of ' the light of life.' Light, in poetic... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 752
...without which none can see the Lord. The Gospel resembles Light — in the happiness it produces. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — The Gospel renders man happy ; it hushes the sighing bosom into placid repose, dries up the orphan's... | |
 | 1815 - Počet stránok 614
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both ahull 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... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - Počet stránok 436
...doth in the outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. xi. 7. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and heat of the... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - Počet stránok 714
...dissolution here, (e) " are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints." (f) " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the wise preacher. The love of life is natural to us, and in our very frame and constitution is... | |
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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. 
