 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...  London, by David Hughson - Page 373by Edward Pugh - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 190 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 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... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...pfist, And broken slumbers, rfses still resolr'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to ran the giddy round. Fathef of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me...soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure 5 Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good, teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vanity, and woe, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge,...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! " P. 597. Mr. Tumor's pamphlet on Wool was first printed in 1782, and was extracted from the Pamphleteer,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1817 - 216 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 sever fading bliss ' .' If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - Laziness - 1818 - 316 pages
...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...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 350 pages
...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,...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss." I shall conclude with recommending a careful perusal of Mr. Mason's treatise or* Self-knowledge, and... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - 506 pages
...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 ;...bliss ! Richmond Park, FORMERLY called the Great or the New Park, o distinguish it from that which was near the Jreen, was made by Charles I. Sir Robert... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...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 !" The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | 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... | |
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