 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 pages
...good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vice From ev ry low, pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial sever fading bliss ' .' If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! 0 teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 430 pages
...Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself : S«ive me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss."' I shall conclude with recommending a careful perusal of Mr. Mason's treatise on Self-knowledge, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou God supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself!...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss... | |
 | John Hassell - England - 1818 - 422 pages
...1792." Underneath is this qnotation from his " Winter:" " Father of Light and Life, Thon God Snpreme ! O, teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pnrsnit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscions peace, and virtne pnre ; Sacred, snhstantial,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 350 pages
...proper to be used when we first open our eyes in the morning : " Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself: Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 175 From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...little prayer, which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! 0 teach me what is good; teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, end vice, From every low pursuit} and fill my soul With knowlege? conscious peace, and virtue pure;... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - 506 pages
...Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Snpreme ! O, tcacb me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, anil vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! O teach nie irhat is good; teach me thyself.1 Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowlegf, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!9'... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...— Father of light and life ; thou good supreme, O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ! Keep me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit,...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. — Winter, lines 217-22. " These lines are boldly flourished with a diamond ; and the gentleman who... | |
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Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... 
