 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 660 pages
...Winter :" — " Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me myself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss." V Passing SHENSTONE, whose poems no one pretends to praise, and few to read, and even whose taste in... | |
 | Elizabeth Christine Cook - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1912 - 304 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson 'a 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... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 230 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!"... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 pages
...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! 0 teach...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss 1 " The precept of order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn, Thomas Francis Moran - United States - 1922 - 336 pages
...Here is one of Thomson's poems of which he was fond: 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!... | |
 | Occultism - 1910 - 616 pages
...glorious order of regeneration — the Order of Melchizedek. Father of light, Thou God supreme, Oh teach me what is good! teach me Thyself; Save me from...my soul With knowledge, conscious peace and virtue pureSacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. We place limitations upon ourselves by the negative words... | |
 | Education - 1924 - 592 pages
...assures success to those who are worthy. — Mark Keppel. Father of light and life Thou Good Supreme! О 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!... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 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 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!"... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 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!"... | |
 | Robert Shafer - American literature - 1926 - 1410 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!1... | |
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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... 
