 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Sermons - 1809 - 452 pages
...that compassion which their magnitude so amply deserves. The author of the book of Ecclesiastes has told us, that the light is sweet, that it is a pleasant...has derived from his Creator: To see that wandering fire, after he has finished his journey through the nations, coming back to us in the eastern Heavens;... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...it now 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 pages
...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 - Apologetics - 1823 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1832 - 590 pages
...eyes; and darkness, in the literal sense, is the absence 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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 612 pages
...is rare that such men's preaching is distasted by carnal hearers, or their persons hated for it. " It is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun e ;" but not to be scorched by its heat. Christ himself at a distance, as promised, was greatly desired... | |
 | Charles Williams - Families - 1828 - 290 pages
...mourn may be exalted to safety. Agaiq the morning has dawned upon us. Truly the light is good, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun. But how much more joyous is it to admit the light of divine truth into the mind, and to reflect its... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...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,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Christian life - 1829 - 528 pages
...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 F3 these things, her mind... | |
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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 man has derived from his Creator : — to see that wandering lire, after... 
