 | Conduct of life - 1822 - 336 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O, teach me wnat is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feeti my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Christianity - 1822 - 452 pages
...rational views of the character of God, or the cond, 'ion of man. " Father of light and lil'c ; thou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vnnity and vice, From every low pursuit ; ond feed my »onl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Christianity - 1822 - 448 pages
...rational views of the character of God, or the condirion of man. " Father of light and life ; tbou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ; Save me from folty, vanity and vice, From every low purioit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supremo O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vire From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from fully vanity and vice From er ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself!...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" 23 The precept of order, requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...safe, Through all the dreary labyrinth of fate. Ibid — Winter. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! Ibid. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 pages
...3792." Underneath is this quotation from Thomson's " Winter," • " Father of Light and Life, Thou God supreme ! O, teach me what is good! teach me Thyself!...conscious peace ,and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" In the church-yard was buried, the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, BA the very learned... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1824 - 256 pages
...still resolved, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself!...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing... | |
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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... 
