 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 666 pagina’s
...merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my T. 27.] Ill resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual fevors to me." I used also sometimes a little... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 664 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1848 - 676 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to rue." I used also sometimes a... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pagina’s
...peace." Franklin also prefixed the following brief, but earnest prayer to his tables of examination : "Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me...resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates." On following out this rigid scheme of self-examination, he was surprised to find himself so muc'a fuller... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pagina’s
...Sacred, substantial, never fading blies." The other was composed by himself, and was as follows. " О Powerful Goodness ' Bountiful Father ! Merciful Guide...interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wigdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children ая the only return in my power for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 522 pagina’s
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use : " 0 powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." I used also sometimes a little... | |
 | Nathan Lewis Rice - 1855 - 234 pagina’s
...the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my table of examination, for daily use : — ' 0 powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide!...wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." Thus our sceptical moralist... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 522 pagina’s
...examination, for daily use : " 0 powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase jn me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest....wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, us the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." JSI 27.] HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pagina’s
...my tables of examination, for daily use. " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father I merciful Guide I Increase in me that wisdom, which discovers my truest...my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Acceet my kind offices to thy other children, as the only return in my power for thy continual favors... | |
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And conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it ; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. 
