 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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...virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! Ibid. In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God Who gives its lustre... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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!...virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!" 23 The precept of order, requiring that every part of my business should have its allotted time, one... | |
 | James Thomson - Seasons - 1824 - 256 pages
...rises still resolved, 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...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing... | |
 | Steam boat companion - 1824 - 228 pages
...3792." Underneath is this quotation from Thomson's " Winter," • " Father of Light and Life, Thou God supreme ! O, teach me what is good! teach me Thyself!...conscious peace ,and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss !" In the church-yard was buried, the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield, BA the very learned... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...With iMjw-flu!.htt hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light antl life ! thou Good Supreme ! О teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself! Save me...feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virrae pure ; Sai-rtd. substantial, never-failing blist ! The keener tempests rise: and fuming dun... | |
 | Marc-Antoine Jullien - Conduct of life - 1824 - 662 pages
...« Father of light and life, tliou good suprême ! » O teach me what is good , teach me tbyself. » Save me from folly , vanity , and vice , » From every low pursuit , and £11 my soûl » Witli knowledge , conscious peacc and virtue pure , « Sacred , substancial , never... | |
 | Samuel Leigh (publisher.) - 1825 - 576 pages
...Underneath is this quotation from his " Winter:" Father of Light and Life! Thon Good Supreme ! O, teacii me what is good! teach me Thyself! Save me from folly,...my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pore; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss I In the church-yard was buried the Rev. Gilbert Wakefield,... | |
 | Science - 1897 - 798 pages
...close : — Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! 0, teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself I Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low...pure — Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss. (" Winter.") ART. X. — The Maoris To-day and To-morrow. By H. HILL, BA, FGS [Bead before the Hau-ke's... | |
 | E. A. Smith - History - 1999 - 348 pages
...copying into his writing book lines from Thomson's 'Address to the Deity', exhorting the Almighty to 'Save me from folly, vanity, and vice / From every...soul / With knowledge, conscious peace and virtue poor.' He copied the passage four times, either to perfect his handwriting or, more likely, to make... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 552 pages
...little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme! 0 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, never-fading bliss!... | |
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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... 
