...figure drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed, in tones unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer *John Fiske, "The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789". what we ourselves disapprove, how...

...drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion: •' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. Jf. to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work?...

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...new Constitution. Washington was among the latter, and his words at the time are well worth quoting. "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...

...prayer be offered for divine interposition and assistance. Washington declared, with great solemnity: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained." Finally, after a weary struggle that had lasted from the 25th of May until the 17th of September, that...

...Washingplan we propose will be adopted. Per- s°"e^n haps another dreadful conflict is to be aPPeal 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...

...more than usual solemnity and grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion: ''It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what \ve ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the...

...public building in the country. Arising from his chair, in tones solemn with suppressed emotion, he said : It is too probable that no plan we propose...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...

...sovereign discretion; but perhaps the best justification is that of President Washington, who remarked: " If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? " 1 This action of the Convention could only mean that the Union of the...

...he gave utterance at the beginning of the great convention : "It is too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer \vha,t wte ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to...