 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1899 - 1172 pages
...have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy cnetures have been my books, hut thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee In the courts, fields, and gardens; but I have found iheo in thy temples. " Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands my transgressions, but thy sanctlncations... | |
 | Edward Louis Colen Ward - American literature - 1899 - 412 pages
...when you come to lie here. — Walter Scott. 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, O God ! in Thy sanctuary — Thy temple. — Lord Bacon. I have meditated upon the state... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...Heaven his book, His wisdom earthly things." — Verses by Mr. F. Bacon. " Thy creatures have been my books, but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples " — A Prayer by Lord St. Alban, April, 1621. And this our life exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues... | |
 | Richard William Church - Philosophy - 1902 - 236 pages
...temples. " Thousand have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions ; but thy sanctificatious have remained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath been an unquenched coal upon thy altar. 0 Lord, my strength, I have since my youth met with thee in all my ways, by thy fatherly... | |
 | Lancelot Andrewes - Devotional exercises - 1903 - 468 pages
...Testament, than the modern scientific interest. He might say with Bacon, ' Thy creatures have been my books : but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in thy temples ' 3 ; only he would add that he had found Him everywhere, and what he found in the temple he carried... | |
 | William Thomas Smedley - 1912 - 216 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... | |
 | Arminianism - 1851 - 648 pages
...no other system can even profess to repair. " Thy creatures have been my books," says Lord Bacon, " but Thy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but have found Thee in Thy temples." Many speculators, less devout and less philosophic, have sought to... | |
 | Alexander Nairne - Bible - 1914 - 260 pages
...sittest in the heavens.' The best comment on this is Bacon's confession : ' Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy Temples.' Notice too the juxtaposition of Pss. Ixxxviii. and Ixxxix. Ps. Ixxxviii. has been called the saddest... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - Literature - 1917 - 698 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...thy temples. Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my heart, through thy... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 159 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...thy temples. Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousand my transgressions; but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my heart, through thy... | |
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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. 
