 | Charles Baker - 1833 - 132 pàgines
...given us darkness for rest and sleep. After we have slept, we may say when we arise from our beds, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."J When God had created light, he called the light day; and he called the darkness night. This... | |
 | John Harrison Curtis - 1833 - 270 pàgines
...bowels, as constipation ought always to be avoided. CHAPTER V. LIGHT.* " LIGHT," said the wisest of men, "is sweet; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The truth of this few will dispute, though perhaps only those who have at some period of their life... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 774 pàgines
...this is a pleasure to the soul that understands itself, and its own true interest. Truly the liyht is sweet, and a pleasant thing it Is for the eyes to behold the tun, (Eccl. xi. 7.) it rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. Hence, light is often put for joy and comfort;... | |
 | Perry Tilleraas - 1988 - 404 pàgines
...me to be honest. I will be honest with myself, my close friends, other people, and my Higher Power. Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes The saints and sages, and the many people who have had near death experiences talk... | |
 | Rabbeinu Yonah - 1967 - 406 pàgines
...years might be more successful or just as successful as his earlier ones. Continuing, he says, "And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun" (Ecclesiastes II : 7). Here he resumes speaking of the days of old age, which he has compared to evening.... | |
 | Deborah Pryor - 1992 - 36 pàgines
...GOWDIE. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ... (She sits on the bed. Her reciting trails off. She toys with the charms on the bedposts, then flips... | |
 | Carl J. Hansen, Steven D Kawaler - 1999 - 472 pàgines
...and Lifshitz, EM 1958, Statistical Physics (London: Pergamon). 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes 11:7 On the other hand, / hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm red-headed.... | |
 | I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor - 1994 - 318 pàgines
...satisfactorily solved his original problem, Qohelet can afford to conclude on a confident, even triumphant note: "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: for if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all ... Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - 268 pàgines
...darkness shall be many, we are turned to things in their own right, the matter-of-factness of things. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."15 But Ecclesiastes comes from a pretechnological (premodern) period and relies on a different... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - 152 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... | |
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