 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...  Five Problems of State and Religion ... - Seite 140von Will Converse Wood - 1877 - 379 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1818 - 594 Seiten
...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...applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger,... | |
 | 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...applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 Seiten
...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 find...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... | |
 | 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...applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...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 find...applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 Seiten
...round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 554 Seiten
...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 find...applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings : -—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger,... | |
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