 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 afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which...  A Year of Life - Seite 57von William Samuel Lilly - 1900 - 404 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1889 - 1088 Seiten
...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 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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 Seiten
...unselfish patriotism. Once when the prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God."... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 Seiten
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | 1904 - 850 Seiten
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 Seiten
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 Seiten
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 Seiten
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 Seiten
...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 the wise and honest can repair ; the event... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - 940 Seiten
...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 afterwards defend our work f Let us raise a standard to which tho wise and the honest can repair: the event is in the hands of... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 Seiten
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
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