 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1874 - 672 pages
...displeasure j but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures .have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions ; but thy sanctificationa have remained... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1874 - 672 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I hare found thee in thy temples. Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions ; but... | |
 | 1874 - 488 pages
...Bacon's " Prayer ".- — " I have delighted in the brightness of Thy temple. Thy matures ttave ben my books ; but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in tlie coorta, fields, and garden! ; I have found Thee in Thy temples." 1 f|\HE heavens are recounting... | |
 | Vanderbilt University - 1875 - 120 pages
...unsurpassed in sublimity by any thing uninspired — uses this language : " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens; but I have found thee in thy temples." Milton, who was a theologian, though not a preacher, says : " True religion is the true worship and... | |
 | Vanderbilt University - Education - 1875 - 112 pages
...unsurpassed in sublimity by any thing uninspired—uses this language: "Thy creatures have been iny books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens; but I have found thee in thy temples." Milton, who was a theologian, though not a preacher, says: "True religion is the true worship and service... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...acquaintance with the Scriptures. But the Bible has far higher claims. Bacon says, " Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more : I have sought Thee in the courts, fields, and groves, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." " There never was found in any age of the world, either... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1876 - 536 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...grace) hath been an unquenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly compassions,... | |
 | Bible - 1877 - 420 pages
...spirit of this Psalm, says, "I have delighted in the brightness of Thy temple. Thy creatures have been my books; but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens; I have found Thee in Thy temples. " THE heavens declare the glory of God ; and the firmament sheweth... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin - 1878 - 268 pages
...; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.... Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." BACON. PREFACE. THE first Edition of this little book was published nearly twenty-four years ago ;... | |
 | James Spedding - Philosophy - 1878 - 736 pages
...displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained... | |
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Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. 
