...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;...

...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...

...all nature is enlightened by his presence, it is also cheered by its gifts. " Truly (says Solomon) the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun." And the author of " The Spectator" has well observed, that the sun has a particular influence on the...

...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....

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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 they...

...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...