 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1839 - 378 pages
...expressive prayer : — '' Father of light and life ! Thou good Supreme ! O teach me what is good I 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... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 552 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... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 576 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - Design - 2007 - 198 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 li II my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 258 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... | |
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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... 
