 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...round. Father of light and life ! thou good Supreme ! O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! The keener tempests rise : and, fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds ascend... | |
 | 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,...and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 220 With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...gone Gone they IIP IT to when past I hey haunt us sti! I 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 ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul . With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 pages
...good 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 peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial never fading bliss If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach... | |
 | Samuel Leigh - London (England) - 1827 - 646 pages
..."Winter:" Father of Light and Life ! Thou Good Supreme I . O, teach me what is good! teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, from every low...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss I In the churchyard were buried the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, who died in 1801, and Dr. Moore, the author... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1908 - 408 pages
...resolv'd, With new-flush'd Hopes, to run the giddy Round. Father of Light and Life! thou Good supreme! O teach me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from Folly, Vanity, and Vice, 220 From every low Pursuit! and feed my Soul "With Knowledge, conscious Peace, and Virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1909 - 432 pages
...prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. : " Father of light and life, them 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1909 - 236 pages
...little 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 from...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!"... | |
 | Michael Francis O'Reilly (in religion Potamian), James Joseph Walsh - Electricians - 1909 - 438 pages
...little prayer," which he recited from time to time: "Father of light and life, Thou Lord Supreme, Oh, 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-failing bliss!"... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...Lake. Canto v. St. 10 DEITY — see God, Providence. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself ! Save me...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! 1158 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 217 Let no presuming impious railer tax' Creative Wisdom, as if... | |
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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... 
