 | Thomas Williams - 1801 - 366 strani
...as an honey-comb, sweet ' to the soul, and health to the bones.' — His countenance is pleasant : * it is a pleasant thing ' for the eyes to behold the sun-;' much more is it to behold the sun of righteousness. * In ' the light of the king's countenance is life1,'... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 strani
...seen with onr bodily eyes : and darkness, in the literal sense, is the •want of this light. But, as light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing, for the eyes to behold the sun ; and as darkness is uncomfortable, and many ways disadvantageous to us ; so, these terms are frequently... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 562 strani
...and his sufficiency to satisfy for the sins of the whole world. She then thought of that expression. ..it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun... .which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ. By these things her mind was... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - 456 strani
...i":'.•...ii" : The author of the book of Ecclesiastes fia^ told us, that the light is sweet, that it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun; tne sense of sight is, indeed ?i th^ highest bodily privilege, the purest phy^iqai; pleasure, which... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1809 - 452 strani
...so amply deserves. The author of the book of Ecclesiastes has told us, that the light is sweet, that it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun ; the sense of sight is, indeed, the highest bodily privilege, the purest physical pleasure, which... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 strani
...Beautiful; but such, certainly, has not been the judgment of mankind in any age of the world. " Truly the light is sweet, and it is a " pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." The criticisms which I have hazarded on the speculalions of these writers do not affect the certainty,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 strani
...Beautiful ; but such, certainly, has not been the judgment of mankind in any age of the world. " Truly the light " is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to " behold the sun." The criticisms which I have hazarded on the speculations of these writers do not affect the certainty,... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 strani
...no more. Midnight is become familiar to him. He has forgotten, that " the light is sweet, and that it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." As he pursues his way through the midst of his fellow men, we take notice of the reception he meets... | |
 | John Thornton - 1823 - 196 strani
...Light is precious to men, who have been many years immured in dungeon-glooms. " Truly," says Solomon, "the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." And can We forget, that saints are, by the power of the Spirit, brought out of darkness into marvellous... | |
 | Robert South - 1823 - 610 strani
...which the whole comfort of our life principally depends. For, says the wise man in Ecclesiast. xi. 7, the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun. And we know that it is much a greater pleasure for a man to see his friend, than only to hear from... | |
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She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ. 
