 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...  George Washington - Seite 29von Henry Cabot Lodge - 1917 - 776 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles W. Wallis - 1919 - 96 Seiten
...will have its influence. It may be probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Parsons - 1920 - 272 Seiten
...advocated half-way measures of amendment as likely to be more popular. To this Washington replied: •"It is too probable that no plan we propose will...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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1920 - 1122 Seiten
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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." Such... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1920 - 852 Seiten
...could see Washington in the midst of them and the air seemed to vibrate with his solemn admonition: " 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... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 704 Seiten
...of constitution that ought to be made, Washington saved the day by a noble speech in which he said, "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... | |
 | 1921 - 616 Seiten
...prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : "It is possible that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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." Such... | |
 | Joseph Ragland Long - 1922 - 540 Seiten
...unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion," rebuked such moral cowardice with these noble words: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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... | |
 | David Birdsall Corson, Hubert Ray Cornish - 1922 - 330 Seiten
...groups of twos and threes from both sides of stage and take their places.) Washington. — " It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....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 —... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1922 - 336 Seiten
...could question that it gave the keynote on which he hoped to maintain the business of the Convention. " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted," Washington said very gravely. " Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 168 Seiten
...splendid index to his own majestic sincerity and to the tremendous obstacles which had to be surmounted : "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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... | |
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