In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights,... Alexander Hamilton: America's Forgotten Founder - Seite 96von Joseph A. Murray - 2007 - 253 SeitenEingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 Seiten
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we...of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers iu... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 Seiten
...stales all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In tliis situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
| 1818 - 594 Seiten
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to findpolitical truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir,... | |
| 1819 - 896 Seiten
...the dark to (¡¡ni political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, liow has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once...of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger, we bad daily prayers in... | |
| 1821 - 702 Seiten
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
| 664 Seiten
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived. Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 Seiten
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginuing of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 Seiten
...how it happened that while ' groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth/ they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their. understandings? — " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, tine... | |
| 1821 - 356 Seiten
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in... | |
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