 FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...  The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... - Page 6311866Full view - About this book
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 pages
...great didactic poet of the last century, begins his universal prayer with the following words : — " Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored ; By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." In his essays we find another passage, which is somewhat altered as it is ordinarily... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...study of mankind is man." THE UNIVERSAL IIL] [ /'UtfB SOI. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. DEO OPT. MAX. "BATHER of all! in every age, -*- In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou grSat First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this,... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 pages
...image shall display, While all my faculties unite To praise the Lord, who gives me light. 98. LM 1 FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime, adored, By saint, by savage, or by sage, The universal Lord ! » 2 Thou great First Cause ! least understood, Who all my sense confined... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1854 - 388 pages
...around, with boundless bounty blest, And Heaven beholds its image in his breast. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 17 Thou great First Cause ! least understood ; Who all ray sense confined, To know... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - 1854 - 266 pages
...Prayer, which his father had always held up to him as a pattern specimen of shallow philosophism : — " Father of all, in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." CHAPTER X. CHARLES went up this term for his first examination, and this caused him... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. — Pope. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime, adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this,... | |
 | George Smith - 1854 - 696 pages
...famous stanza of Pope, •••hich has been so often placed in the hands of our children : — " Father of all, in every age. In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord." Is jt true, then, that the person and character of the great Jehovah were exhibited... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1854 - 354 pages
...than so much waste paper.— [From Ames1 Mariner's Sketches. THE UNIVESRAL PRAYER. BY ALEXANDER POPE. Father of all ! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this,... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. — Pope. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime, adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...; The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.— Pope. FATHER of all ! in every age, In every clime, adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood. Who all my sense confined To know but this,... | |
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