 | 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1839 - 88 pages
...world,"** and the " Sun of righteousness."! f In reference to human experience and enjoyment, it is said, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."Jf In no passage of the Bible, however, is light re* 1 Chronicles, xxix,... | |
 | Sir William Waller - Meditations - 1839 - 236 pages
...rest, O my soul! for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee ! MEDITAT. II. UPON THE SUN-RISING. r I TRULY the light is sweet, and a pleasant -*~ thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ! Look out, O my soul ! and see a miracle, and no wonder. Behold that glorious... | |
 | Bible - 1839 - 1060 pages
...•j- shall prosper, either this or that, or J/J'^'*"" whether they both shall be alike good. 7 TJ ^. the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...enjoyments, and must not impede the progress of your education for another and higher state of existence. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," but " remember the days of darkness," and while you "walk in the way of... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1840 - 448 pages
...curious, before the townspeople have awaked from their slumbers, or have yet bethought them that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the fun." The basket containing these floral curiosities is sometimes half filled... | |
 | John Bunyan - Theology - 1841 - 586 pages
...opposition to that which is not pleasing ; for to be " clear^ is to be pleasant. Hence it is said, " t of the Lord Jesus, JOHN BUNYAN. READER, WE, the eyes to behold the clear sun," Exod. vii. 19, 20. I read of rivers that looked red as blood, that... | |
 | Charles Follen - Unitarianism - 1841 - 404 pages
...SERMON VII. 1 CORINTHIANS ix. 22. I am made all things to all men 78 SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XI. 7. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. . 90 SERMON IX. JOHN i. 9. The true Light, which lightcth every man that... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 514 pages
...valuable, than life. " Skin for skin ; all that a man hath will he give for his life." Solomon says, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This is a beautiful world, and contains ten thousand things which are... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 516 pages
...valuable, than life. " Skin for skin ; all that a man hath will he give for his life." Solomon says, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This is a beautiful world, and contains ten thousand things which are... | |
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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. 
