 | George Delgarno Hill - 1845 - 370 oldal
...lights up the mind with a cheerful prospect, and dispels D2 the sadness that confinement had entailed. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the Preacher. 1 A gloomy prospect, fraught with suffering and pale affliction, fills the soul... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 oldal
...feels the effect of his influence ; man watches for the morning and rejoices at his approach ; for " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The vegetable tribes likewise feel his energy : he gives circulation to the sap in plants and trees... | |
 | Louisa Shaw - 1846 - 200 oldal
...ties but seVer To re-unite, and live in joy, for ever ! MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 79 THE DYING BLIND BOY. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." ECCLESIASTES ii. 7. OH, MOTHER ! gentle Mother, pray come nearer to me now, That I may feel thy kiss... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1846 - 292 oldal
...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:... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1846 - 692 oldal
...the outward. " The light of Ecci. H. 7. the eyes," saith the wise man, " rejoiceth the heart." " And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." This we all find by daily experience ; and so do we, too, that the light and heat of the sun agitate... | |
 | 1846 - 462 oldal
...inheritance. W. HUNTINGDON. 137 MATT. xxii. 42. "How brilliantly the sun is shining this morning ! 'Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun,'" Eccles. ii. 7, said a traveller to his companion, as they "were journeying onward, on a lovely May... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1847 - 152 oldal
...think, demands this interpretation. In the two verses immediately preceding the text, it is said, " 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 they... | |
 | 1848 - 792 oldal
...swallow was heard. The lark was in the air, fluttering her wings, and warbling as if wild with joy. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ;" and if it put us more in mind than it does of the Sun of Righteousness, it would be far better ;... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - 1847 - 300 oldal
...merely because we are commanded, and because it is profitable ; but also because we desire to know. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes : Therefore I love thy commandments above... | |
 | John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - 1847 - 92 oldal
...never tire in hearing of Jesus, and you should never tire in teaching him. We do not tire of light: Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Jesus is the true light, the Sun of righteousness; whosoeverfolloweth Him shall not walk in darkness.... | |
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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 they shall be many. 
