 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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading...  Pamphlets: Education. English. 1810-1906] - Page 151835Full view - About this book
 | James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save mo from folly, vanity, and vice, • From every low pursuit! and feed my soul 220 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pine ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The... | |
 | Andrew Dickinson - 1851 - 234 pages
...denoted the place of interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ' 0 teach...every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conseious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss !... Winter. I stood at... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 620 pages
...dispersed, I Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow. Father of light and life! thou Good Supreme! O : The keener tempests rise: and fuming dirtt. \ From all the livid east, or piercing north, '*^ Thick... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...passage from AVinter, " Father of Light and life ! thou Good Supreme I О leach me what is goodl leach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my eoul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" By... | |
 | William Gaspey - 1851 - 496 pages
...his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792. " ' Father of light and life, thou good supreme ! O ! teach me what is good, 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,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...resolution. One of these prayers was from Thomson : " Father oflight and life, thou Good Supreme ! О learh me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly,...and vice ; From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul \Vith knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure. Sacred, substantial, never fading blies." The other... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...still resolved, 215 With new-flushed hopes, to run the giddy round. Pather of light and life ! thoa Good supreme ! 0 teach me what is good ! teach me...Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursait ; and feed my soal 230 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pare — Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | 1852 - 838 pages
...PRAYER. *• Oh! Father of light and life, thou God supreme, Teach me what is right, teach me thyself j Save me from folly, vanity and vice, from Every low...my soul with Knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pare, -S«cred substantial, never-ending bliss.' ' THE CHURCH WARDER, AND DOMESTIC MAGAZINE. No. LXXX1V.... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 pages
...this beautiful passage from the season of Winter : " Father of Light and Life ! Thou good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself ; Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, Krom every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure , Sacred,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1908 - 430 pages
...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... | |
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