 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - 456 páginas
...and dominion,; FOR THE BLIND. :«i••* , i:'• .: .• ,T SERMON VIII. ECCLESIASTES XL VERSE VII. Truly, the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, • IF any man were to require, at my hands, a proof of the authenticity of that gospel by the principles... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 502 páginas
...objects, and examine them. We see and admire the light of the day; and we may say with the wise man, " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But this is the light of the eye : it is not the light of the mind : Christ is that light ; and therefore... | |
 | Edward Reynolds - 1811 - 434 páginas
...extraordinary blessings upon thy family, Mat. x. 41, 42; Heb. xiii. 2; 1 Kings xvii. 13 — 16. 7. ^[ Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. By light, and beholding the sun, we are to understand the period of this present life, as is evident... | |
 | 1805 - 672 páginas
...visible. Whatever theory of the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we inow from experience, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." AJJI. K Were we to be shut up for a short time in total darkness, ire should doubtless perceive a greater... | |
 | 1821 - 632 páginas
...the goodness of God, so doth pre-eminently that of natural light. Hence it is said in Eccl. xi. 7. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is .for the eyes to behold the sun." During the dark months of November and December, the days were very short, and the occupations of many... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1853 - 500 páginas
...orderly and agreeable manner when we exclude ourselves as little as possible from the light of heaven. ' Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.' There is something more than a mere metaphor in speaking of ' the light of life.' Light, in poetic... | |
 | 1845 - 752 páginas
...without which none can see the Lord. The Gospel resembles Light — in the happiness it produces. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." — The Gospel renders man happy ; it hushes the sighing bosom into placid repose, dries up the orphan's... | |
 | 1815 - 614 páginas
...knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both ahull be alike good. 7 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... | |
 | William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 páginas
...doth in the outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. xi. 7. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and heat of the... | |
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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. 
