...new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O, teach me wnat is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feeti my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading...

...most rational views of the character of God, or the cond, 'ion of man. " Father of light and lil'c ; thou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself; Save me from folly, vnnity and vice, From every low pursuit ; ond feed my »onl With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue...

...rational views of the character of God, or the condirion of man. " Father of light and life ; tbou good supreme ; O teach me what is good ; teach me thyself ; Save me from folty, vanity and vice, From every low purioit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and...

...while here 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 Save me from fully vanity and vice From er ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue...

...when gone Gone they ne er go when past they haunt us still Father of light and life Thou good supremo O teach me what is good Teach me thyself Save me from folly vanity and vire From ev ry low pursuit and feed my soul With knowledge conscious peace and virtue pure Sacred...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...visions past, And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, With new-flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round. Father of light and life ! thou Good supreme ! O teach...conscious peace, and virtue pure ; Sacred, substantial, never fading bliss ! The keener tempests rise : and fuming dun From all the livid east or piercing...

...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...

...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...