 | Richard Clark - 1814 - 530 pages
...• 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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 190 pages
...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! O teach me what is good ! Teach me thyself! S;ive me from folly, vanity, and vice, Trom ev'ry low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1815 - 228 pages
...ESQ. *' O teach me what is good! teach me thyself! « Father of light and life! thou GOOD SUPREME! " Save me from folly, Vanity and Vice : " From every low pursuit! and feed my soul " Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss." THOMPSON. " With knowledge, consciolis peace, and virtue... | |
 | James Thomson - 1816 - 256 pages
...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...soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure 5 Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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...feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtne pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" As one of Thomson's admirers, I here thank this... | |
 | John Ely - 1817 - 124 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1817 - 216 pages
...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 peace and virtue pure Sacred substantial sever fading bliss ' .' If I am right thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach... | |
 | James Thomson, Dr. Johnson - 1818 - 316 pages
...resolv'd, With new-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...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east, or piercing north, Thick clouds... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 350 pages
...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,... | |
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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... 
