 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 pages
...almost set upon my displeasures, but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. ray sins, and ten thousands my transgressions, but thy sanctifications have remained with me, and my... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...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...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." (x) So in the Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Brown says, " For my religion, though there be several circumstances... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...and " The Writer's Prayer," are in the Baconiana. (6) Vol. vii. p. 8. (c) Vol. vii. p. 9. VOL. xV. ff my books, but thy scriptures much more. I have sought...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." (a) Instaura- The same holy feeling appears in all his important tton' works. The preface to his Instauratio... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...mortals, (for so I hold Lord Bacon to be) has observed in his beautiful prayer: ' I have sought thee in courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.' This has been well supposed to mean devotional exercise, with a view to cultivate and improve our piety,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 398 pages
...mortals, (for so I hold Lord Bacon to be) has observed in his beautiful prayer : ' I have sought thee in courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.' This has been well supposed to mean devotional exercise, with a view to cultivate and improve our piety,... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 694 pages
...the language of the great father of inductive philosophy, in one of his addresses to the Deity : " Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures...and gardens ; but I have found thee in thy temples." These impressions and sentiments in favour of revealed religion, he used every endeavour to communicate... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...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...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." (i) So in the Religto Medici, Sir Thomas Brown says, " For my religion, though there be several circumstances... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 pages
...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...and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples." (*) So in the Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Brown says, " For my religion, though there be several circumstances... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pages
...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 lought^thee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee in thy temples. ' Thousands... | |
 | 1831 - 704 pages
...almost set upon my displeasure; but I have been, as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. oodward lliee in the courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee in thy temples. ' Thousands have been... | |
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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. 
