| James Thomson - 1826 - 268 pages
...new-flushM hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life! tbou Good Supreme! O teach roe 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... | |
| James Thomson - Seasons - 1826 - 176 pages
...new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thbu Good Supreme ! O, teach mo what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 220 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...believed and were sure that he was the Christ, the Son of the living God." Evaiu. Thou Good 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/uifA, with conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading... | |
| William Lothian - Bible - 1828 - 580 pages
...virtue and holiness. " 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... | |
| Joel Hawes - Books and reading - 1829 - 190 pages
...emergency of life, prompted by the warm impulse of duty, you will raise to Heaven the expressive prayer, " 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,... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 718 pages
...Htm tasteless ! and how terrible, when gone ! Gone 1 they ne'er go : when past, they haunt us still. Father of light and life ! Thou good supreme ! O teach...me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, Frum ev'ry low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
| James Cossar Ewart - 1830 - 494 pages
...A scene of crude disjointed visionspast, And broken slumbers, rises yet resolv'd, With ncw-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and...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... | |
| Elizabeth Strutt - 1830 - 272 pages
...strains belong ; In cheerful sounds your voices raise, And fill the world with loudest praise. Prayer. 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... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 496 pages
...continual favours 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,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1905 - 354 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. : " 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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial,... | |
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