 It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which...  Government in State and Nation - Seite 125von James Alton James - 1901 - 383 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1802 - 440 Seiten
...please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our •work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." This was the patriot voice- of Washington ; and this the constant tenor of his conduct. With this d'eep... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair: the event is in the hand of God.' Thirdly, among the fifty-five delegates at the Convention were not only shrewd and practical men like... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 25. On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, last of the seven states needed to form a house, was represented... | |
 | 1904 - 850 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Thus did he strike the keynote of the Convention and brace it to its highest ideals. Never before had... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing the seven states needed to form a house, was represented... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing the seven states needed to form a house, was represented... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 Seiten
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." This outburst of noble eloquence carried conviction to every one, and henceforth we do not hear that... | |
 | 1889 - 1264 Seiten
...please the people, we ofifer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.' Thirdly, among the fifty-five delegates at the Convention •were not only shrewd and practical men... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 500 Seiten
...people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 Johnston: Lalor's Cyclopa9dla of Political Science, "The Convention of 1787." CHAPTEK IX. THE CONSTITUTION... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1893 - 1010 Seiten
...If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, bow can we afterwards defend our work Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.' This outburst of noble eloquence carried conviction to everyone." The great difficulty in that Convention... | |
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