 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...  The Seasons: By James Thomson; with His Life, an Index, and Glossary ... - Page 179by James Thomson - 1793 - 225 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E. A. Smith - History - 1999 - 348 pages
...copying into his writing book lines from Thomson's 'Address to the Deity', exhorting the Almighty to 'Save me from folly, vanity, and vice / From every low pursuit! And feed my soul / With knowledge, conscious peace and virtue poor.' He copied the passage four times, either to perfect... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 pages
...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! Save me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! 0 teach me what is good; teach me Thyself! Save me from...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | G. Waldo Dunnington, Jeremy Gray, Fritz-Egbert Dohse - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 608 pages
...to epitomize so completely his own views and feelings: Father of light and life! thou Good Supreme! O teach me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 1 Theory of numbers. From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
..."Poems," viz: "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme I O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself I 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 bliss!" The precept... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 320 pages
...teach me Thyself I 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 bliss !" The precept of order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page in... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 330 pages
...Poems, viz. Father of Light and Life, thou Good Supreme, 0 teach me what is good, teach me thy self! Save me from Folly, Vanity and Vice From every low Pursuit, and fill my Soul With Knowledge, conscious Peace, & Virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never fading Bliss!... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 pages
...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! Save me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - Design - 2007 - 198 pages
...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! Save me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and li II my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
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