 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 684 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 The State House, Philadelphia, 1776 ( From print in the collection of CS Keyser) 1787 afterwards defend... | |
 | 1919 - 552 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... | |
 | 1904 - 430 pagini
...slowly assembled, he grew eager for the success of the work, and would listen to no halfway measures. " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair," he said to those who talked of a weak plan. When the work began, he was chosen president of the convention,... | |
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1904 - 298 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 defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 pagini
...which inspired a new courage in the breasts of many waverers. " If to please the people," he said, "we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our own work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair, the event is in the... | |
 | 1904 - 584 pagini
...which inspired a new courage in the breasts of many waverers. " If to please the people," he said, " we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our own work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair, the event is in the... | |
 | William Coligny Doub - 1905 - 740 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.' " 432. Convention decides to draw up New Constitution ; the Virginia Plan. — After this advice the... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1905 - 404 pagini
...one of the noblest speeches he or any statesman ever uttered. "If, to please the people," said he, "we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we...honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." The Virginia delegates had carefully framed a form of government, which had been drawn up by Madison... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 456 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... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1905 - 474 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... | |
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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... 
