 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 556 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... | |
 | Church congress - 1894 - 824 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 ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 432 pagini
...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." There spoke the good genius of America. If any... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1896 - 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... | |
 | John Fiske - 1895 - 638 pagini
...we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please jthe people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how...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... | |
 | Henry Addison Nelson, Albert B. Robinson - 1895 - 1166 pagini
...of the rattling drays — a fitting place for reflection." On the south façade are the words : ' ' Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God. — Washington." The hope was exprfssed by the speakers at the ceremony of dedication... | |
 | Wilbur Fisk Crafts - 1895 - 534 pagini
...Washington's Farewell Address, which New York selected as the fittest to inscribe upon the Centennial Arch: " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest may repair. The event is in the hand of God."* To which may well be added that warning of Lowell, the... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1896 - 562 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 XIV. ; but his line... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1896 - 532 pagini
...said, " 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 the wise and honest can repair. The event... | |
 | Percy Alport Molteno - 1896 - 330 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 ? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and the honest can repair... | |
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