 | William Sherlock - 1814 - 298 strani
...natural fear of death results from self preservation and the love of our own being ; for light is tweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, Eccles. xi. 7. All men love life, and the necessary consequence of that is to fear death ; though this... | |
 | 1815 - 614 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 714 strani
...numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints." (f) " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun," says the wise preacher. The love of life is natural to us, and in our very frame and constitution is... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 strani
...is a dark, and dead, and dreary waste. In this sense, above all others, " truly the light is sweet ; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun !" The soul of man cannot prosper, the work of grace does not appear, unless the reviving rays of this... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1818 - 234 strani
...thou hast ordained ; Lord, what is man that thou thus visitest him \h For truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun :i all the glory be to the Father of Iight,j4 who commandeth the morning, and causeth the day spring... | |
 | 1818 - 494 strani
...would be dangerous, and rest insipid. True are the words of the Hebrew philosopher, " Light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it. is for the eyes to behold the sun." THE GRACE OF GOD MANIFESTED. AJf ACCOUNT OF THE CONVERSION AND DEATH OF SARAH TOM' LINSON OF STRATFORD,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 strani
...of men. " The light of the body is the eye ;" and a precious gift it is. " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." But the faculty of vision, as well as some others, is bestowed in a higher degree of acuteness on certain... | |
 | Robert May - 1819 - 392 strani
...•wisdom. " God saw the light was good." Truly, light is sweet fo the eyes, it rejoiceth, the heart. A pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun. Light is pure, therefore a fit emblem of holiness, without which no mail shall see the Lord. " God... | |
 | 1821 - 270 strani
...the Sun the ingenuity of man may invent, we know from experienee, that " truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.'* the inquisition in Portugal, when brought forth to be martyred, on beholding the light of the Sun,... | |
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