 | Fredrika Bremer - 1844 - 140 pages
...! О 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 !" I perceived the change within myself with rapture. The nocturnal scene had made a deep impression... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...of light and life ! Thou Good Supreme ! ***** * Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low al Cain. St. 4. In other part stood one who, at the forge Labouring, ! m. THOMSON — The Seasons. Winter. L. 217. Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1896 - 250 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! '' The precept of Order requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 464 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!" I entered upon the execution of this plan for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions... | |
 | Alfred Ernest Daniell - Church buildings - 1897 - 352 pages
...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...virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! ' " The tablet, which is not large, is placed rather high on the wall, and, as it sadly needs cleaning,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1897 - 788 pages
...O, teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious...pure — Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. (" Winter."} AKT. X. — The Maoris To-day and To-morrow. By H. HILL, BA, FGS nil"' before the Hawke's... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Edward Cornelius Towne, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 656 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!" I entered upon the execution of this plan for self-examination, and continued it with occasional intermissions... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 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... | |
 | England - 1900 - 408 pages
...1 O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself 1 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 1" B***. [1838, Partl.,tp. 34-39.] The royal manor of Richmond was anciently known by the name of Sheen,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1900 - 72 pages
...me what is Good ! teach me thy self I Save me from Folly, Vanity, and Vice, From every low Pursuit I and feed my soul, With knowledge, conscious Peace, and Virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never fading Bliss ! These lines enable me to see his love of God and his earnest desire to be like... | |
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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... 
