| 1611 - 360 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... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pàgines
...knowledge of God in Christ, is pleasant. It is to the soul what the light of the sun is to the body. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." St. Paul, who was blessed with this knowledge, "counted all things but loss for the excellency of it;"... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1800 - 308 pàgines
...nor disdains to watch over them and supply their wants ? What is there more pleasant than light ? " Truly the light is " sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes " to behold the sun." Its rays fill all the immense expanse of the heavens ; and, as long as day lasts, the eye is surrounded... | |
| 1869
...ii., p. 483. t Quintil. xi. B. 2. irony we have a striking illustration in Eccles. xi. 7 — 10: " 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... | |
| Henry Hunter - 1803 - 286 pàgines
...fupereminently " was lite ;" a life of which man is in a peculiar fenle partaker : and the life <uas t/ie light of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. *' Truly the light is fweet, and a pleafant thing it is for the eyes to behold the fun." Rut the faculty of vifion, as well... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pàgines
...might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor, wisdom, in the grave, whither thou gogst. 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... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 476 pàgines
...youth and age, in prosperity and adversity, be always doing good, and depc?id upon God for the issue. 7 Truly the light [is] sweet ; and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun ; life and the -comforts of it are very 8 agreeable : But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in... | |
| 1807 - 570 pàgines
...whether shall prosper, prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 7 ^f Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun : 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all ; yet let him remember the days of darkness... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 pàgines
...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... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1809 - 452 pàgines
...harbinger of greater, and nobler joys. FOR THE BLIN D. SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XI. VERSE VII. • "• Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant , thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. . t . t IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the... | |
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