 | Ralph Curtis Ringwalt - 1898 - 346 Seiten
...majestic sense of Washington brought the assemblage to the lofty plane of its duty and opportunity. He said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose...be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to 25 be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 384 Seiten
...frightened, and once he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another 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... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - 1899 - 364 Seiten
...too, often tried to pour oil on the troubled waters ; but sometimes even he grew frightened, and once he said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another" conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can... | |
 | Andrew Magoun Sherman - 1900 - 216 Seiten
...these magnificent words of Washington, uttered in the dark and trying days of our early history: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - 1900 - 634 Seiten
...feeling of the tremendous issues involved, he said: * Bancroft's History of the Constitution, II., 5. "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...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 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1901 - 538 Seiten
...majestic sense of Washington brought the assemblage to the lofty plane of its duty and opportunity. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose...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... | |
 | 1901 - 390 Seiten
...against these dangers the Convention was called of which Washington was president. In it he arose and said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose...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... | |
 | J. A. JAMES PH.D., A. H. SANFORD, M.A. - 1901 - 468 Seiten
...was to dominate in the future debates of the Con- Delegate* in vention. He said: "It is too probable no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend oar work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | James Alton James - 1901 - 412 Seiten
...was to dominate in the future debates of the Con- Delegate? in vention. He said: "It is too probable no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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 ;... | |
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