 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.  Philosophical Essays - Side 306af Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 580 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Sydney Smith - 1865 - 478 sider
...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 man has... | |
 | 1875 - 350 sider
...cau do is to enjoy it while it lasts, and get warm in it. It's light you know, and the Bible says, ' it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun.' I was always glad, since I was ever so small, that the sun belonged to God, for if it had belonged... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 sider
...with early in the Bible — " pleasant to the eye." Visual pleasure is the germinal form of Beauty. " Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." But the word receives far more extensive and more complex applications. By the transitions of language... | |
 | George Macaulay - 1872 - 408 sider
...shores we stand. Reflected from the glassy lake, the light is at once clear, mellow, and mild, so that " truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." All this may be taken as an emblem of what is in the text spoken of as the medium through which the... | |
 | George Macaulay - 1872 - 408 sider
...shores we stand. Reflected from the glassy lake, the light is at once clear, mellow, and mild, so that " truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." All this may be taken as an emblem of what is in the text spoken of as the medium through which the... | |
 | William Page Roberts - 1874 - 198 sider
...object, and the path lies straight before him. His eye is single and his whole body is full of light, and truly the ' light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun.' And so we say that a man has ' found peace,' and his character grows strong, and the consistent well-knit... | |
 | Sereno Dwight Nickerson, Charles H. Titus - 1875 - 650 sider
...MERCERS' SCHOOL. Light. 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 man has derived... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Stoddard Johnson - 1875 - 548 sider
...Night, the owl hides his diminished head, and the sable gradually gives way. What a thing is light ! ' It is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun.' How much we are indebted to light ! ' Let there be light,' was the first command of the almighty Architect... | |
 | William Gifford - 1876 - 488 sider
...eyes, he finds that the light of the sun has shone into his apartment, and he is disposed to exclaim, ' Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun.' When a good man dies in this dark world (for this world is a dark world), and has opened his eyes in... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1877 - 390 sider
...in life than the passing hour. It is running on, and taking new shapes before we are well aware. " Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun." But clouds may follow the sweetest morning, and days of darkness will come in the most rejoicing life.... | |
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