 | Noah Webster - Geography - 1815 - 228 pages
...ESQ. *' O teach me what is good! teach me thyself! « Father of light and life! thou GOOD SUPREME! " Save me from folly, Vanity and Vice : " From every low pursuit! and feed my soul " Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss." THOMPSON. " With knowledge, consciolis peace,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...pfist, And broken slumbers, rfses still resolr'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to ran the giddy round. Fathef of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure 5 Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792. " FATHER of light and life ! thou good SUPREME ! O teach...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtne pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!"... | |
 | John Ely - Readers - 1817 - 124 pages
...see thy blissful charms ttyat here descend, Thro' distant realms and endless years extend. A PRAYER. FATHER of light and life, Thou good supreme ! O teach...teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity and vice : With Knowledge, conscious Peace, and Virtue pure, From every low pursuit: and fill my soul Sacred,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792 Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach...teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vanity, and woe, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 350 pages
...The following prayer from Thomson is proper to be used when we first open our eyes in the morning : " Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O 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,... | |
 | 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...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed 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 - 430 pages
...following prayer from Thomson is 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 : S«ive me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge,... | |
 | 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' The prerept... | |
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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... 
