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... Familiar Lectures on Moral Philosophy - Página 153por John Prior Estlin - 1818Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...mortals lost to hope, and lights them safe, Through all the dreary labyrinth of fate. Ibid — Winter. 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... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...favors to me." 22 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 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... | |
| John Arliss - 1825 - 382 páginas
...Winter:" Fuber of Light anii Lib, Thou God Supreme ! O, tench me what is gund I tench me Tbyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my lonl u nli knowledge, conscious nc.ice, and virtue pure; Surcd, subtuutial, never lading bliss ) SHERIDAN... | |
| James Hervey - 1825 - 460 páginas
...disclose the earth hlooming with heauties. Father of light and life, said my transported mind. .— Thou Good Supreme \ O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself. * Evandrum ex Immili tecto lax suscitat alma, Et matutinl volucrum suh culmlne cautus.— Tirf. Lax... | |
| James Thomson - 1826 - 438 páginas
...visions past, And broken slumbers , rises still resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. 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... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 páginas
...while here How tasteless and how terrible uhpn gone Gone they IIP IT to when past I hey haunt us sti! I 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 ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul . With knowledge conscious... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 páginas
...Son of the living God." Evaiu. Thou Good Supreme! Oh teach me what is good ! Teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit, and feed my soul With/uifA, with conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. God saith... | |
| Joel Hawes - 1829 - 190 páginas
...emergency of life, prompted by the warm impulse of duty, you will raise to Heaven the expressive prayer, " 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... | |
| Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 páginas
...visions past, And broken slumbers, rise* still resolv'd, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself 1 Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 páginas
...favors to me." 22 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 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... | |
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