 | Noah Webster - 1812 - 358 Seiten
...FOR THE USE 0¥ SCHOOLS. BY NOAH WEBSTER, ESQ. " Father of light and life ! thou GOOD SUPUTUIE ! " O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself! ',' Save me from folly, vanity and vice ; " From eyery low pursuit ! and feed my soul " With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ,; \ ''Sacred,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 Seiten
...vanity while here How tasteless and how terrible when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supreme...me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vice From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul Wilh knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Saci-ed substantial... | |
 | 1814 - 496 Seiten
...now be accepted. And glory be to the Father, Son, and 'Holy Ghost, forever. — ^U»/£JV. A PRAYER. FATHER of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach...teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice ; Prom every low pursuit ; and fecd my soul With Knowledge, conseious Peace, and Virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 Seiten
...• INVOCATION for Four foices. S. WESLEY. .il^ATit m of light and life ! thou good supreme ! O leach me what is good. — Teach me thyself. Save me from folly, vanity, and vice ; From evory low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure: Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 Seiten
...pfist, And broken slumbers, rfses still resolr'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to ran the giddy round. Fathef of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O 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 5 Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 Seiten
...denoted the place of his interment, for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792. " FATHER of light and life ! thou good SUPREME ! O teach...Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtne pure, Sacred, substantial,... | |
 | John Ely - 1817 - 124 Seiten
...see thy blissful charms ttyat here descend, Thro' distant realms and endless years extend. A PRAYER. FATHER of light and life, Thou good supreme ! O teach...teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity and vice : With Knowledge, conscious Peace, and Virtue pure, From every low pursuit: and fill my soul Sacred,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1831 - 952 Seiten
...denoted the place of his interment for the satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792 Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach...teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vanity, and woe, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 350 Seiten
...The following prayer from Thomson is proper to be used when we first open our eyes in the morning : " Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach...me thyself: Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 175 From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father of light and life, thou God supreme ! O 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,... | |
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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... 
