 | Richard William Church - Philosophers - 1884 - 388 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, iields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. "Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand... | |
 | Florence Caddy - Natural history - 1886 - 402 pages
...was with thee wherever thou didst go.' 1 Fabricius. CHAPTER XXIII. THE LAST. Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in Thy fields and Thy gardens. I have found Thee in Thy Word and Thy temples.— BACON. IN 1771 Linne... | |
 | English essays - 1888 - 488 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...me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an nnquenched coal upon thine altar. " 0 Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - Literature - 1891 - 348 pages
...philosophy bring men's minds about to religion. Thy creatures, O Lord, have been my books, but Thy holy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in the courts, fields and gardens, but I found Thee, 0 God, in Thy sanctuary— Thy temples." Caesar Borgia : " I had provided in the course... | |
 | John Dando Sedding - Gardens - 1891 - 290 pages
...time of his fall, when he presumably concluded that anything might happen. " Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." Three more points about the essay I would like to comment upon. First, That in spite of its lofty dreaming,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...fuperfluity of malicioufnefs. Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have fought Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temple. Thoufands have been my fins, and ten thoufands my tranfgreffions : but Thy fanftifications... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1894 - 312 pages
...Chapter jclj. Hail, Sabbath ! thcc I hail, the poor man's friend ! GRAHAME, 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. LORD BACON. A NOTHER Sabbath... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 550 pages
...fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples. Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained...through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thy altar. O Lord, my strength, I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 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...me ; and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an uiu|iienched coal upon thine altar. O Lord, my strength ! I have since my youth met with thee in all... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 1172 pages
...displeasure; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy crmtures hare been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...thee in the courts, fields, and gardens; but I have fnund i bee In thy temples. '•Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands my transrressinns, but... | |
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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. 
