 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...without whose vivid rays all is a dark, and dead, and dreary waste. In this sense, above all others, " truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun !" The soul of man cannot prosper, the work of grace does not appear, unless the reviving rays of this... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...Him" supereminently " was life ;" a life of which man is in a peculiar sense partaker : and the life was the light of men. " The light of the body is the...upon man. He however possesses a light denied to the beasts that perish. " There is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding."... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1818 - 234 pages
...moon, and the stars which thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him \h For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :i all the glory be to the Father of Iight,j4 who commandeth the morning, and causeth the day spring... | |
 | 1844 - 640 pages
...all, if I mistake not, is the following text in English from Ecclesiastes, chapter XL, verses 7, 8. 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... | |
 | 1821 - 270 pages
...visible. Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experienee, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.'* the inquisition in Portugal, when brought forth to be martyred, on beholding the light of the Sun,... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1822 - 328 pages
...ariseth and maketh the darkness flee before him, and discovereth all the beauty and lustre of things. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Nor is it less useful and advantageous for directing our ways, and ordering our several employments... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...other interruption of our union. 20S . THE AMERICAN [L«won 88. LESSON LXXXVIII. Sp ring.— DENKIE. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — Ecclesiastes, xi. 7. THE sensitive Gray in a frank letter to his friend West, assures him that,... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 pages
...the great business of man. Let the words of the wise king of Israel sink deep into their hearts — " Truly, the light is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold " the sun. But if a man li ve many years, and rejoice " in them all ; yet, let him remember the days of dark" ness,... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pages
...merciful to let the sunshine fell on the evil as well as on the good. It is said in his holy word, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," Eccl. xi. 7. And it says also, that in heaven neither sun nor sunshine will be wanted. " There shall... | |
 | 1824 - 542 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... | |
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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. 
