 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...  Poems, by Somerville, Pattison, Savage, Broome, and Swift - Page 65by William Somervile - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! 0 teach me 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!... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 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...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! 0 teach me 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!... | |
 | Philip Olleson - 2003 - 394 pages
...tone; it is followed by an imitative Andante con moto section in C minor ('Save me from folly, from vanity and vice, from every low pursuit / And feed my soul with knowledge'), leading to a largely chordal final section ('Conscious peace and virtue pure, Sacred substantial never-fading... | |
 | G. Waldo Dunnington, Jeremy Gray, Fritz-Egbert Dohse - 2004 - 608 pages
...teach me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 1 Theory of numbers. From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge,...virtue pure — Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!2 It is not known just what Gauss believed on most doctrinal and confessional questions. He did... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 pages
..."Poems," viz: "Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme I O teach me what is good; teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...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... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 2005 - 330 pages
...Poems, viz. Father of Light and Life, thou Good Supreme, 0 teach me what is good, teach me thy self! Save me from Folly, Vanity and Vice From every low Pursuit, and fill my Soul With Knowledge, conscious Peace, & Virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never fading Bliss!... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 258 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...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | Stuart Bailey, Peter Bilak - 2007 - 198 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...folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and li II my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 148 pages
...good; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill rny 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 page... | |
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