 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
 | Joseph Jones - Devotional literature - 1837 - 362 pages
...admit that God is the happiness of man : and you may be prepared to repeat the words of a poet; « Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" But now another view of the subject is to be taken. If deism were the true religion,... | |
 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...admired Thompson, and exclaim, ' ,•,-,.. . . . • . 1 • • ; :i • ' Thou good supreme ! Oh, teach me what is good ; Teach me Thyself ! Save me...and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading blis*.' " , " How much do they miss," said Charles, " who indulge in morning sloth, when a creation... | |
 | James Thomson - 1838 - 236 pages
...passed, And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, With new-flushed hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds... | |
 | 1839 - 742 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...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss !" " We wish," said we to ourselves, " that his lordship's taste had been as good as his intentions,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...dark Illumine, what low, raise and support.—MIITON. Father of light and life! thou good supreme, 0 teach me what is good ! teach me thyself; Save me...conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss.—THOMSON. SECTION X. LORD BACON. MEN have entered into a desire of learning and... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1839 - 146 pages
...Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From even' low pursuit! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss !" LECTURE II. DANGERS OF YOUNG MEN. TlTUS ii. 6. " Young men likewise exhort to be sober-minded."... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1839 - 528 pages
...me what is good I teach me Tbyselfi Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit I and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace,...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss i" In the churcbyard were buried the ReV. Gilbert Wakefield, who died in 1801; and Dr. Moore, the author... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 664 pages
...continual 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 ! O teach...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! " The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1901 - 296 pages
...favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's " Poems," 0 viz. : "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! O teach...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss I " The precept of order requiring that every part of my businest should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Conduct of life - 1901 - 518 pages
...is pood ; 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... | |
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