 O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates.. Accept my kind offices. to thy other children, as the only return...  Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin - Page 35by Benjamin Franklin - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful goodness! bountiful father! merciful guide!...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. "Father... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful goodness! bountiful father! merciful guide.'...dictates Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as tJie only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...O powerful goodness ! bountiful father ! merciful guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovert my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. " Father... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...of unabated hostility. — Life of Curran. Ed. Rev. 1 820. Dr. Franklin's Morning Prayer : — " O powerful Goodness, bountiful Father, merciful Guide...wisdom dictates, accept my kind offices to thy other creatures as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me ?" President West being subject... | |
 | English essays - 1821 - 730 pages
...of unabated lio-tility.— Life ofCurran, Ed. Rev. May, 1820. Dr. Franklin's Morning Prayer: — " O powerful Goodness, bountiful Father, merciful Guide...wisdom which discovers my truest interest, strengthen ray resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates, accept my kind offices to thy other creatures... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1823 - 288 pages
...shall quote here, for obvious reasons, the Morning Prayer of the celebrated Doctor Franklin : , " O Powerful Goodness, bountiful Father, merciful Guide...wisdom dictates, accept my kind offices ; to thy other creatures as the only return in my power for thy continued favors to me." as inimical to religious... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...to my tables of examination, for daily use. " 0 powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guidel Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest...my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates: Jlccept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - Maxims - 1826 - 288 pages
...I shall quote here, for obvious reasons, the Morning Prayer of the celebrated Doctor Franklin : " O Powerful Goodness, bountiful Father, merciful Guide...perform what that wisdom dictates, accept my kind office* to thy other creatures as the only return in my power for thy continued favors to me." aa inimical... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1828 - 250 pages
...I shall quote here, for obvious reasons, the Morning Prayer of the celebrated Doctor Franklin : " O Powerful Goodness, bountiful Father, merciful Guide...truest interest, strengthen my resolution to perform wliat that wisdom dictates, accept my kind offices to thy other creatures as the only return in Biy... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...well spent, and employed agreeable to thy precepts, is worth more than an eternity of sinning.] 21 And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I...children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." 22 I used also sometimes a little prayer, which I took from Thomson's poems, viz. "... | |
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