 | 1826 - 450 pàgines
...derived from ;he ohservation and contemplation of nature that caused the wisest of kings to exclaim, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to hehold the sun." And 1 think there is not a reflecting heing m the world who hath not felt, though... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1826 - 680 pàgines
...Theocritus, or Drummond — but this passage from Ecclesiastes, xi. — 7 : " Truly the light (the morn) is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This example is chosen without taking the trouble to select; it would not be difficult to choose an... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pàgines
...While all nature is enlivened by his presence, it is also cheered by his gifts. " Truly (says Solomon,) the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to beho'.ii the sun." And the author of " the Spectator" has well observed, that the sun has a particular... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - 1826 - 432 pàgines
...light, that shiuel/t more and more unto the perfeet day. — Prov. iv. 1S. "TRULT (says the wise man,) the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to hehold the sun." A transition from a state of darkness to a state of light, how desirahle and important... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 538 pàgines
...rejoicing in this world. And this difficulty will be easily resolved, by considering the foregoing verse : Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun. Upon which it follows, But if a man live many years, ie supposing he should... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1827 - 238 pàgines
...years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many." •- TRULY the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ;" and perhaps the truth of the remark is never felt more forcibly than on a New Year's morning. Not... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1827 - 544 pàgines
...does in 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." This \ve all find by daily experience, and so do we too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 pàgines
...may. Every thing here is uncertain. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out. Truth whispers, " 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... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pàgines
...and the lift was the light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pàgines
...needful, but they will not excuse you for the willing admission of your favourite sin. V. 21—23. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This cheerful, gladdening property of light is so •well known, that the word light is often used... | |
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