 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 902 páginas
...almost set upon my 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 have found thee in thy temples. " Thousands have... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 450 páginas
...English philosopher in a prayer, " 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." Here are flowers of every hue and fragrance, fruits of every taste and nutriment. The sinner cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...Prayers are solemn, appropriate, and sublimely expressed. There is no " natural theology " about them. " i >J D Ƭ R 4C;3 M A ] I II Fl Vm Me0ɸE sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." What are the... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1855 - 242 páginas
...the first and the latter rain ; 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 Thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found Thee in Thy temples." LORD BACON.... | |
 | 1855 - 748 páginas
...sun almost set upon my 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 groves, but 1 have found thee in thy temples. " Thousands have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 páginas
...almost set upon my 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 have found thee in thy temples. " Thousands have... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1856 - 500 páginas
...fail to be understood. And hence it is, that Lord Bacon has remarked with so much truth and beauty : " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought thee in fields and gardens ; but have found thee in thy temples." 10. — The Bible may be regarded... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 páginas
...almost set upon my 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 have found thee in thy temples. "Thousands have... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 148 páginas
...philosopher and moralist, and his experience and disappointments and errors as a courtier and statesman, " 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," and his decided... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have keen 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. Thousands have been my sins,and ten thousands my transgressions ; but thy sanctificationshave 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. 
