O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.. Accept my kind offices. to thy other children, as the only return... Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 35von Benjamin Franklin - 1859Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 Seiten
...merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my T. 27.] Ill resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual fevors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 668 Seiten
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 Seiten
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father... | |
| Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 Seiten
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to rue." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father... | |
| Success - 1851 - 362 Seiten
...peace." Franklin also prefixed the following brief, but earnest prayer to his tables of examination : "Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me...resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates." On following out this rigid scheme of self-examination, he was surprised to find himself so muc'a fuller... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 Seiten
...Sacred, substantial, never fading blies." The other was composed by himself, and was as follows. " О Powerful Goodness ' Bountiful Father ! Merciful Guide...interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wigdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children ая the only return in my power for... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 Seiten
..." Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." And, conceiving...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, namely: " Father... | |
| Nathan Lewis Rice - 1855 - 234 Seiten
...for obtaining it ; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my table of examination, for daily use : — ' 0 powerful Goodness...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." Thus our sceptical moralist prayed for divine aid which was not promised, to keep a... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 Seiten
...examination, for daily use : " 0 powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase jn me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest....dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, us the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." JSI 27.] HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. I used... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father I merciful Guide I Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest...my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Acceet my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors... | |
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