 | James Henry Potts - Philosophy and religion - 1889 - 806 pages
...book, as he styled himself. He has given us a picture of himself in the attitude of a Bible student : " Here, then, I am, far from the busy ways of men. I...intricate? — I lift up my heart to the Father of Light : ' Lord, is it not thy Word? If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God. Thou givest liberally,... | |
 | Benjamin Titus Roberts - Pastoral theology - 1892 - 360 pages
...me. Let me be Tiomo unius libri — a man of one book. Here then I am, far from the busy ways of man, I sit down alone: only God is here. In his presence I open, I read this book; for this end, to find the way to Heaven. Is there a doubt concerning the meaning of what... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - Baptists - 1893 - 598 pages
...price give me the book of God. I have it. Here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri. Here, then, I am far from the busy ways of men ; I...sit down alone ; only God is here. In his presence I read his book for this end — to find the way to heaven. Is there a doubt concerning the meaning of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Bible - 1897 - 388 pages
...give me the book of God ! I have it : here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book. Here, then, I am, far from the busy ways of men. I...book ; for this end— to find the way to heaven.' 15. Coleridge : ' For more than a thousand years the Bible collectively taken has gone hand in hand... | |
 | 1867 - 68 pages
...intellect to the truth, and the truth to the intellect. " I sit down," — says a devout writer, — F " I sit down alone : only God is here. In His presence...meaning of what I read ? Does anything appear dark and intricate? I lift up my heart to the Father of lights : Lord, is it not Thy word, — 'If any man... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Clergy - 1903 - 336 pages
...price, give me the book of God! I have it; here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri. Here, then, I am far from the busy ways of men. I...In his presence I open, I read his book, for this end—to find the way to heaven. Is there a doubt concerning John Wi-slcy's Shorthand Writing. Slightly... | |
 | Clarence Augustus Barbour - Bible - 1911 - 244 pages
...give me the Book of God ! I have it : here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book. Here, then, I am, far from the busy ways of men. I...Book, for this end — to find the way to heaven." 1 Truth. 11. Coleridge: " For more than a thousand years the Bible collectively taken has gone hand... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - Anthologies - 1911 - 452 pages
...price, give me the book of God. I have it : here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be homo unius libri. Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit...is here. In His presence I open, I read His book. . . . And what I thus learn, that I teach. — J. WESLEY. Preface to Sermons. HOMO UNIUS LIBRI WHEN... | |
 | George Peck Eckman - Bible as literature - 1915 - 220 pages
...price give me the book of God. I have it; here is knowledge enough for me. Let me be a man of one book. Here then I am far from the busy ways of men. I sit...book ; for this end — to find the way to heaven." The Bible not only thus reveals a man to himself, places before him a reliable philosophy of life,... | |
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Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone : only God is here. In His presence I open, I read His book; for this end, to find the way to heaven. 
