 | Max Gauna - 1996 - 306 pàgines
...Rabelais's intentions here, it is not immediately obvious. I think the quotation from Ecclesiastes—"Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun"—has to do with the importance of sunlight for Diogenes as evinced by the most celebrated of... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - 1998 - 456 pàgines
...their honour had failed in keeping their miserable souls and bodies together. "Truly the light is good, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun,'" and there are some who crave life at any price; but in the event of our failure there will be hundreds... | |
 | 1999 - 68 pàgines
...thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. '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... | |
 | Elizabeth Swados - 1999 - 260 pàgines
...most mellow carrier pigeon, and Roz Lichter, who always makes me laugh and is my partner in crime. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Ecclesiastes 11:7 JOURNAL « I am seventeen numerical years on this earth. Though God knows what that... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1999 - 674 pàgines
...with more quickness and cheerfulness. The gloominess of an office throws a gloom over the mind ; but " light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The lightest part of the office should be devoted to the clerks. We have observed sometimes a violation... | |
 | Jonathan Cross - 2000 - 314 pàgines
...it is also characteristic for their plots to turn on moments of anagnorisis, as detailed below. • Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun', speaks and sings the defiant chorus of women towards the end of The Mark of the Goat. Though Lucus... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - 2001 - 308 pàgines
...thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 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... | |
 | Christina Rossetti - 2001 - 1284 pàgines
...Me?' "Truly the Light is sweet" FD (40-41) in CR's commentary on Rev. 1:12-16. Title [untitled] 18gs. 'Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun' (Ecc. 11:7). "Are ye not much better than they?" FD (42) in CR's commentary on Rev. 1:17-18. Tide [untitled]... | |
 | David Deborah, Sathayananda Ji - 2004 - 250 pàgines
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall 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;... | |
 | James Shane - 2002 - 710 pàgines
...The heart of the wise is hi the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. KINDNESS The desire of a man is his kindness. Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but... | |
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