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. Sermons - Page 128by Sydney Smith - 1809Full view - About this book
| Thomas Williams - Bible - 1801 - 366 pages
...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 - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...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 - Congregational churches - 1808 - 562 pages
...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 - Sermons, English - 1809 - 456 pages
...have-not forgotten the misfortunes of the blind; pitied their long darkness> and: 128 For the Blind. remembered, that the light is sweet, that .it is a "pleasant thing for the eyes to belioW the sun. The object of the society for which I am now to implore your protection, is to diminish... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 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 speculalions of these writers do not affect the certainty,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 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,... | |
| 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... | |
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