 | John Harrison Curtis - 1833 - Страниц: 270
...bowels, as constipation ought always to be avoided. CHAPTER V. LIGHT.* " LIGHT," said the wisest of men, "is sweet; and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." The truth of this few will dispute, though perhaps only those who have at some period of their life... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - Страниц: 774
...this is a pleasure to the soul that understands itself, and its own true interest. Truly the liyht is sweet, and a pleasant thing it Is for the eyes to behold the tun, (Eccl. xi. 7.) it rejoiceth the heart, Prov. xv. 30. Hence, light is often put for joy and comfort;... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - Страниц: 722
...with those who are still in it. O tell them what yon see and enjoy. Tell them light is sweet and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the Sun of Righteousness. It would not indeed be kind to do this unless there was hope for them. But there... | |
 | Rabbeinu Yonah - 1967 - Страниц: 406
...years might be more successful or just as successful as his earlier ones. Continuing, he says, "And the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun" (Ecclesiastes II : 7). Here he resumes speaking of the days of old age, which he has compared to evening.... | |
 | Deborah Pryor - 1992 - Страниц: 36
...GOWDIE. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Truely the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun ... (She sits on the bed. Her reciting trails off. She toys with the charms on the bedposts, then flips... | |
 | Carl J. Hansen, Steven D Kawaler - 1999 - Страниц: 472
...and Lifshitz, EM 1958, Statistical Physics (London: Pergamon). 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. — Ecclesiastes 11:7 On the other hand, / hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm red-headed.... | |
 | I.C. Jarvie, N. Laor - 1994 - Страниц: 318
...satisfactorily solved his original problem, Qohelet can afford to conclude on a confident, even triumphant note: "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun: for if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all ... Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and... | |
 | David Strong - 1995 - Страниц: 268
...darkness shall be many, we are turned to things in their own right, the matter-of-factness of things. "Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun."15 But Ecclesiastes comes from a pretechnological (premodern) period and relies on a different... | |
 | Billy A Melvin - 2012 - Страниц: 152
...thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good. 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... | |
 | Max Gauna - 1996 - Страниц: 306
...Rabelais's intentions here, it is not immediately obvious. I think the quotation from Ecclesiastes—"Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun"—has to do with the importance of sunlight for Diogenes as evinced by the most celebrated of... | |
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