 | Truth - 1837 - 566 pages
...Oh, 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...and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading blis*.' " , " How much do they miss," said Charles, " who indulge in morning sloth, when a creation... | |
 | Joseph Jones - Devotional literature - 1837 - 362 pages
...! 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 bliss !" But now another view of the subject is to be taken. If deism were the true religion,... | |
 | 1839 - 742 pages
...Oh ! 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...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,... | |
 | Joel Hawes - 1839 - 146 pages
...! 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 - 1840 - 674 pages
...! 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...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one page... | |
 | M. De Havilland - 1840 - 354 pages
...r 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...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss." A. At the pontifical palace of the Quirinal. The Quirinal hill on which it stands, carries the mind... | |
 | Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 426 pages
...Oh ! 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...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,... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - Temperance - 1840 - 110 pages
...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!" Thornton. NOTES. NOTES. NOTK A.—PAGE 10. fa) A lady, in company with the memorable Mr. Griinshaw,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me myself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss." Passing SHENSTONE, whose poems no one pretends to praise, and few to read, and even whose taste in... | |
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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... 
