 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! 0 teach...pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 430 pages
...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...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss."' I shall conclude with recommending a careful perusal of Mr. Mason's treatise on Self-knowledge, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou God 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... | |
 | John Hassell - England - 1818 - 422 pages
...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! 0 teach me what is good; teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, end vice, From every low pursuit} and fill my soul With knowlege? conscious peace, and virtue pure;... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 350 pages
...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: Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 175 From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...— Father of light and life ; thou good supreme, O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ! Keep me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit,...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. — Winter, lines 217-22. " These lines are boldly flourished with a diamond ; and the gentleman who... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1819 - 186 pages
...supreme! O teach me what is good! Teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! Still in the right to stay: If am wrong, O teach my heart If I am right, thy grace impart, To find... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd, With ncw-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Fa lT+ keener tempests rise : and, fuming dun Prom all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - 1820 - 220 pages
...interesting moment, prefer to Heaven the poet's prayer. " Father of light and life ! Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good! Teach me Thyself! Save me from...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss!" L ADDRESS, DELIVERED AT THE COMMENCEMENT IN 1815. Young Gentlemen, In all those... | |
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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... 
