 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...firm base as soon as I. 1157 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto v. St. 10 DEITY — see God, Providence. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...Lake. Canto v. St. l0 DEITY — see God, Providence. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme 1 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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Christine Cook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1912 - 302 pages
...sometimes," Franklin says in the Autobiography, ' ' a little prayer which I took from Thomson 'a Poems, viz : 'Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach...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... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 230 pages
...continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach...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... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...religious man. He believed in prayer and practiced it. Here is one of Thomson's poems of which he was fond: Father of light and life, thou good supreme! O teach...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... | |
 | Education - 1924 - 592 pages
...assures success to those who are worthy. — Mark Keppel. Father of light and life Thou Good Supreme! О 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... | |
 | Occultism - 1910 - 616 pages
...glorious order of regeneration — the Order of Melchizedek. Father of light, Thou God supreme, Oh 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 pureSacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 pages
...continual favors to me. • I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: hill, whence I stretched my eye over many a mile of...find how vast a globe I inhabited. 202 203 This r pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...O inquirer after I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's poems, viz.: — "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach...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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...Greek letters. I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's poems, viz.'. — "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach...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... | |
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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... 
