 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...enjoyment, and carnal security, would have been ready to exclaim, ' It is good for me to be here. Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.' This had been your feeling, rather than that derived from "the wisdom is from above ;" — ' It is... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1830 - 176 pages
...and this is a pleasure to the soul that understands itself, and its own true interest. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun;" it " rejoiceth the heart." Hence light is often put for joy and comfort; but no light is comparable... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1830 - 430 pages
...the darkness fly before him, and discovereth 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... | |
 | Jane Taylor - 1830 - 306 pages
...rejeice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many." " TELLY 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... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1831 - 282 pages
...maketh the ihirkness flee before him, and discovereth all the beauty ;md 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, ;md ordering our several employments:... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...may be " made to possess months of vanity, and have wearisome nights appointed unto him!" " 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... | |
 | Nicholas Lockyer - 1831 - 238 pages
...soul inclination impure, nor under the least possibility to be made so. Light is pleasant. " Truly light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," saith the wise man, Eccl. xi. 7. Light is glorious, and casts glory upon every thing. It suits a most... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1832 - 240 pages
...the stars which thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him /? For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun m: all the glory be to a Psalm cxxxvi. 2, 3. 4 Exod. xxxiii. 19. c Psalm cxlv. 10. d Psalm cxlv. 8.... | |
 | 1831 - 930 pages
...whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both fiitill be alike good. 7 H Truly the CQ T k + 5 帧 *>Dl g g [ D ) RZ { W q ]? in: 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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