 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...ISAIAH lx, l. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...been an eye to behold it ! Were man void of a capacity for seeing, he had never said with transport, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun." It is the eye, that amazing organ, which penetrates and embraces an immensurable... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1822 - 328 pages
...ariseth and maketh the darkness flee 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... | |
 | Rev. W. Hutton - 1822 - 306 pages
...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 behold the sun." And the author of " The Spectator" has well observed, that the sun has a particular influence on the... | |
 | George Holden - 1822 - 316 pages
...of beneficence, or whether they both [shall 7 be] alike good. Truly the light of life and prosperity [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun, and to live in 8 the sunshine of delight and abundance. But nevertheless, if a man live many years,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...other interruption of our union. 20S . THE AMERICAN [L«won 88. LESSON LXXXVIII. Sp ring.— DENKIE. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — Ecclesiastes, xi. 7. THE sensitive Gray in a frank letter to his friend West, assures him that,... | |
 | John Brown - 1823 - 366 pages
...right. Indeed, he is so constituted, that he can have no real rational enjoyment without these. " Truly light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." Still more sweet is the perception of truth to the regenerated mind ; still more pleasant is the love... | |
 | 1824 - 542 pages
...and waters, and to survey the blue face of heaven. I felt the beauty of those words of inspiration, ' truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; ' and, simple as they are, they bore to me, in the situation in which disease had placed me, a weight... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pages
...merciful to let the sunshine fell on the evil as well as on the good. It is said in his holy word, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," Eccl. xi. 7. And it says also, that in heaven neither sun nor sunshine will be wanted. " There shall... | |
 | Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 394 pages
...the great business of man. Let the words of the wise king of Israel sink deep into their hearts — " Truly, the light is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold " the sun. But if a man li ve many years, and rejoice " in them all ; yet, let him remember the days of dark"... | |
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