 | 1802 - 440 pagini
...sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our •work ? Let us raise a standard to which...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... | |
 | 1900 - 342 pagini
...dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to whicli the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have gone down... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 pagini
...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 pagini
...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...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 pagini
...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...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 pagini
...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...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 pagini
...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...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... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 pagini
...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... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 1044 pagini
...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...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 pagini
...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...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... | |
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