 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1900 - 634 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 event... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1900 - 420 pagini
...the cost of making them efficient. I quoted yesterday to the Prime Minister the words of Washington : "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? " I know he agrees with me in his heart of hearts, but — 'and he paused.... | |
 | Andrew Magoun Sherman - 1900 - 216 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 works ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the... | |
 | 1901 - 514 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." Some of the fifty-five took no real part in framing the Constitution, and some were obstructionists.... | |
 | William Winton Goodrich - 1901 - 80 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." The proceedings of the Convention, which lasted five months, were in secret for the stated reason that... | |
 | James Alton James - 1901 - 420 pagini
...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...honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God." Other signers of the Declaration of Independence present besides Franklin were Roger Sherman, of Connecticut;... | |
 | J. A. JAMES PH.D., A. H. SANFORD, M.A. - 1901 - 468 pagini
...sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend oar work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Other signers of the Declaration of Independence present besides Franklin were Roger Sherman, of Connecticut;... | |
 | James Alton James - 1901 - 412 pagini
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work 1 Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the...honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God." Other signers of the Declaration of Independence present besides Franklin were Roger Sherman, of Connecticut... | |
 | Sir John Alexander Cockburn - 1901 - 264 pagini
...of deep emotion, repeated -the memorable words of George Washington under similar circumstances : " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hands of God." It was an impressive scene. Mr Macrossan spoke with such burning earnestness as to arrest... | |
 | 1901 - 554 pagini
...model. No ; the evil is the consequence of individualism, and by individual effort must it be cured. " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair," said Washington, the ideal American, in his successful attempt to inspire the Constitutional Convention... | |
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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... 
