...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,'...

...seen with onr 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...

...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...

...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...

...i":'.•...ii" : The author of the book of Ecclesiastes fia^ told us, that the light is sweet, that it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun; tne sense of sight is, indeed ?i th^ highest bodily privilege, the purest phy^iqai; pleasure, which...

...the splendid illuminations of summer. From the regular vicissitudes of day and of night, custom (if nothing else were to operate) should entitle them...sun." The criticisms which I have hazarded on the speculations of these writers do not affect the certainty, nor detract from the importance of the assumption...

...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...

...which the whole comfort of 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...

...Light is precious to men, 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...

...seen with our bodily 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...