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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. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison - Page 458
by Joseph Addison - 1804
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Worthies of Science

John Stoughton - Scientists - 1879 - 358 pages
...displeasure; bnt 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,...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...but I have been as a dove, free from superlluity of maliciousness. My creatures have been mv book*, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in...have found thee in thy temples. Thousands have been ray Ģins and ten thousands my transgressions, but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my...
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Church Work and Life in English Minsters, Volume 1

Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott - Cathedrals - 1879 - 254 pages
...divisions of THY Church, I have delighted in the brightness of THY Sanctuary. I have sought THEE in courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found THEE in THY Temples ' — Lord Bacon VOL. I. INTRODUCTION CATHEDRAL CHURCHES of ENGLAND and WALES WITH REPRESENTATIVE GROUND...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's ...

Joseph Addison - 1880 - 532 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,...
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The Story of the Notable Prayers of Christian History

Hezekiah Butterworth - Prayers - 1880 - 330 pages
...temples. " Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctificaiions have remained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thy altar. 0 Lord, my strength, 1 have since my youth met with Thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly...
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The Story of the Notable Prayers of Christian History

Hezekiah Butterworth - Prayers - 1880 - 328 pages
...maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought therein the courts, fields 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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Observations on Sunday-school instruction, ed. by R.S. Gregg, Issue 96

John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - Sunday school teachers - 1880 - 96 pages
...only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more ; I have sought thee in thy courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples."* The knowledge of man is to...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 2

James Spedding - Great Britain - 1881 - 460 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, gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. " Thousands have been my sins and ten thousand my transgressions...
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Bacon

Richard William Church - Philosophers, Modern - 1884 - 252 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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The Home Beyond: Or Views of Heaven, & Its Relation to Earth, by Over Four ...

Bishop Samuel Fallows - 1884 - 524 pages
...BACON breathed this prayer before death: — "Thy creatures, O Lord, have been my lxwks, but thy holy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens; but I have found Thee, O God, in thy sanctuary, thy temples." " O what new life 1 feel ! Being of beings, how I rise ! Not...
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