 | Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...Of all the elements of nature there is none more delightful and beautiful in its effects than light. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." It diffuses a thousand shades of colouring over the hills, the vales, the rivers, and the boundless... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. ^f 7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : ^f 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pages
...millions of miles in a minute. It renders other bodies visible and agreeable. Hence Solomon says, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Eccl. xi. 7. The Lord God, after he had formed the Heavens, and the substance of the earth, he formed... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 636 pages
...You may know it by this, that the visit of this day-spring from on high is very satisfying and sweet; "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." What more sweet and refreshing than the spring of day to them that watch for the morning ? So here,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...endeavours succeed not, yet another may ; and thou knowest not which of them may speed the best. XI. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Indeed life is sweet, and light gives cheerfulness unto our life ; it is a comfortable thing to enjoy... | |
 | John Jebb - Christian life - 1837 - 512 pages
...arises, and makes the darkness flee before him, and discovers 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 480 pages
...before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ; but let a man live many days and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness,... | |
 | 1840 - 420 pages
...does it entirely pass ? Besides, if now your sky be clear, you know not what a day may bring forth. "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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1838 - 478 pages
...before she died, looked more like a corpse that had lain weeks in the grave, than one fresh dead. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; but let a man live many days and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...•j- shall prosper, either this or that, or J/J'^'*"" whether they both shall be alike good. 7 TJ ^. : 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
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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. 
