 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 420 pages
...downfall. To them belongs that admonition of the wise man, would they seriously listen to it ; If g, man live many years and rejoice in them all, yet let...remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many : all that oometb is vanity, f II. We are not to expect, from our intercourse with others, all that... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 pages
...their own downfall. To them belongs that admonition of the wise man, would they seriously Jisten to it; If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, far they shall be many: all that cometh is vanity.* II. WE are not to expect, from our intercourse... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 640 pages
...all, if I mistake not, is the following text in English from Ecclesiastes, chapter XL, verses 7, 8. Truly the light is sweet, And a pleasant thing it...remember the days of darkness ; For they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. As the path is passing through the Gap, another leads from it very steeply... | |
 | Evangelistic work - 1821 - 270 pages
...visible. Whatever theory of 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,... | |
 | William Beveridge - Christian life - 1821 - 390 pages
...as the sun doth in the outward. The light of the eyes, saith the wise man, rejoieeth the heart. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the tun. This we all find by daily experience, and so we do too, that the light and beat of the sun agitate... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1821 - 352 pages
...ISAIAH lx, l. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Truly, light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun, says the Preacher. But the interchange of night with day adds to its beauty, and the longest night... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...been an eye to behold it ! Were man void of a capacity for seeing, he had never said with transport, " Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eye to behold the sun." It is the eye, that amazing organ, which penetrates and embraces an immensurable... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 506 pages
...reflect how important it is to prepare themselves for the future unknown vicissitudes of the world. For, if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all,...him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.*—Now, either in the prospect of future distress, or under present suffering, I say, that the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 470 pages
...old age, loss of friends, and the other calamity which are incident to human life. Though a man five many years and rejoice in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many.* The various duties to which patience, under this view, gives rise, afford a larger subject to discourse... | |
 | Henry Scougal - Theology, Doctrinal - 1822 - 328 pages
...ariseth and maketh the darkness flee before him, and discovereth all the beauty and lustre of things. And truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Nor is it less useful and advantageous for directing our ways, and ordering our several employments... | |
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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. 
