| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 558
...little prayer, which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! 0 teach me what is good; teach me thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, end vice, From every low pursuit} and fill my soul With knowlege? conscious peace, and virtue pure;... | |
| Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life, Thou Good Snpreme ! O, tcacb me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, anil vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my sonl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...Poems, viz. "Father of light and life, thou God supreme! O teach nie irhat is good; teach me thyself.1 Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowlegf, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!9'... | |
| 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...not quite seven inches long, by three wide,' inscribed with the well known lines from Thompson : — Father of light and life ; thou good supreme, O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ! Keep me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious... | |
| Jesse Appleton - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...human affairs, but especially at the present interesting moment, prefer to Heaven the poet's prayer. " Father of light and life ! Thou Good Supreme ! O teach...vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! And feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bljss !"... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...resolv'd, With ncw-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou good Supreme ! 0, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me...vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The... | |
| Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...quotation from his " Winter :" " Father of Light and Life! Tliou Good Supreme! O, teach me what is goodl teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice. From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pnre; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" This... | |
| Benjamin Silliman - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 332
...satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792. Then follow these lines from his own Winter. Father of light and life, thou GOOD SUPREME ! O, teach me what is good, teach me TIIVSELF ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From ev'ry low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge,... | |
| Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 774
...of his admirers, in the year of our Lord, 1792." Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" " Father of Light and Life! Thou Good Supreme! O, teach me what is good I teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit 1 and feed my soul... | |
| Thomas Kitson Cromwell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...satisfaction of his admirers, in the year of our Lord 1792." Underneath is a quotation from the Winter; Father of Light and Life ! Thou Good Supreme! O, teach...vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading Miss ! In... | |
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