 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...  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Page 115by Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 243 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Robertson, Society of Ancient Scots - Poets, Scottish - 1821 - 414 pages
...of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792. " Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, Oh, teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure : Sacred, substantial, never-fading,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...pass'd, And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme! O teach...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Authors, Scottish - 1822 - 458 pages
...of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792. " Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Supreme, Oh, teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure : Sacred, substantial, never-fading,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1822 - 174 pages
...new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O, teach me wnat is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feeti my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Christianity - 1822 - 452 pages
...most rational views of the character of God, or the cond, 'ion of man. " Father of light and lil'c ; thou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vnnity and vice, From every low pursuit ; ond feed my »onl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue... | |
 | Jesse Appleton - Christianity - 1822 - 448 pages
...rational views of the character of God, or the condirion of man. " Father of light and life ; tbou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ; Save me from folty, vanity and vice, From every low purioit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...while here How tasteless and how terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from fully vanity and vice From er ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supremo O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vire From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." 22 I used also sometimes a little prayer, which I took...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!"... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...mortals lost to hope, and lights them safe, Through all the dreary labyrinth of fate. Ibid — Winter. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss... | |
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