 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 Seiten
...resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! 0 teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me...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 - 1818 - 350 Seiten
...The following prayer from Thomson is proper to be used when we first open our eyes in the morning : " Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O 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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...sometimes a 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!...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 - 1818 - 422 Seiten
...1792." 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,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 430 Seiten
...following prayer from Thomson is proper to be 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 : S«ive me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...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;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! O teach nie irhat is good; teach me thyself.1 Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowlegf, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!9'... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - 506 Seiten
...Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Snpreme ! O, tcacb me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, anil vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure... | |
 | 1843 - 628 Seiten
...not quite seven inches long, by three wide,' inscribed with the well known lines from Thompson : — 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, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1819 - 186 Seiten
...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... | |
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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 fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading... 
