 | John Eadie - Bible - 1848 - 178 pages
...the same experience, — " I have delighted in the brightness of thy temple. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more; I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples."* Who that has felt these emotions, will ever cease to remember the Bible— " That Holy Book, on every... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1848 - 654 pages
...dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, hol tfcj seriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but 1 have found thte In thy temples." 1 So in the Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Brown says, " For my religion,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...rain ; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods. Thy creatures have been take good at God's hands, The same holy feeling appears in all his important works. The preface to his Instaurado Magna opens... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...appropriate, and sublimely expressed. There is no " natural theology" about them. " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found tJiee in thy temples." What are the confessions of his frailty to man, compared with these ? " O Lord,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Natural history - 1850 - 610 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 Г have found thee in thy temples, r Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands rny transgressions... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...which we record as his last testimony:—" Thy creatures, 0 Lord, have been my books, but thy holy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens; but I have found thee, 0 God, in thy sanctuary, thy temples." 28. JOHN WELCH. "0 what new life I feel! Being of beings, how... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 600 pages
...which we record as his last testimony : — " 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 1 have found thee, 0 God, in thy sanctuary, thy temples." 38. JOHN WELCH. • "O what new life I feel... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1852 - 606 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...Thousands have been my sins, and ten thousands my transgress] ons ; but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my heart, through thy grace, hath... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods. Thy creatures have been rny books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." The same holy feeling appears in all his important works. The preface to his Instauratio Magna opens... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Death - 1852 - 624 pages
...record as his last testimony : — " Thy creatures, 0 Lord, have been my books, but thy holy Scriptares much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee, 0 God, in thy sanctuary, thy temples." 28. JOHN WELCH. " 0 what new life I feel I Being of beings,... | |
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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. 
