 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 - 第 35 頁Benjamin Franklin 著 - 1859完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1921 - 280 頁
...examination for daily use : " O powerful Goodness ! bountiful Father ! merciful Guide ! Increase in mo that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen...resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept tny kind offices to Thy other children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me."... | |
 | Columbia University. Department of Philosophy - 1925 - 422 頁
...prayer is also taken from the Autobiography : "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide I Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest...children as the only return in my power for Thy continual favors to me." In his famous "The Way to Wealth," which is a compilation of the best of his sayings... | |
 | Myrtle Strode Jackson - 1925 - 536 頁
...well as I could." The prayer which he made to use with his chart of virtues is truly remarkable: "O! powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children, as... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 頁
...Guide! Increase in me that wisdom •which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind...children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me." 1 "O Philosophy, guide of life! O inquirer after I used also sometimes a little prayer... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 頁
...merciful Cuidel Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions scious of my presence. Bending closely over him, I...import of his words. "Not hear it? — yes, I hea favors to me. • I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz.: Father... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1926 - 630 頁
...GRATITUDE to God and service to mankind are the dominant notes in the daily prayer of Benjamin Franklin: О powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...wisdom which discovers my truest interest Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 頁
...formed the following little prayer, which was prefixed to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 274 頁
...his assistance for obtaining it; to this end I formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use. 0 powerful...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1927 - 344 頁
...in me that "wisdom ivhiJi discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perfoi m tvhat that -wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my povier for thy continual favours to me." I used also sometimes a little prayer which I took from Thomson's... | |
 | John D. Kelly - 1991 - 294 頁
...daily record of his adherence to the virtues, and he prefixed to the books a prayer for daily use: "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide!...which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates" (p. 85). The good did not simply follow natural interests... | |
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