 | 1865 - 138 Seiten
...interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may...this city be requested to officiate in that service." His confidence in the Christian religion, and his regard for purity of conduct, did not diminish as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Epes Sargent - 1866 - 270 Seiten
...concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests,...clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that serTice." There were some features in the constitution of the United States, as finally adopted, which... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 Seiten
...conquest." He then moved, that " henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service." This proposition, so becoming in itself and urged with such solemn and impressive effect by its venerable... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 Seiten
...to sustain it, — that " henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." " I have lived, sir (said he most nobly), a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...sustain it,—that" henceforth prayers, 18 imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on onr deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." "I have lived, sir (said he most nobly), a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
 | Caroline Snowden (Whitmarsh) Guild - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberation, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed...this city be requested to officiate in that service." The motion was not adopted, as "the convention, except three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary."... | |
 | New York (State), New York (State). Constitutional convention, 1867-1868 - 1868 - 1610 Seiten
...men," and his motion that henceforth "prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessings upon our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, " met with a unanimous assent. From that hour the public business proceeded as smoothly as the unrippled... | |
 | 1869 - 396 Seiten
...that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberation, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed...this city be requested to officiate in that service." The general tenor of this splendidly worded motion offered (but, to the everlasting shame of its rejectors)... | |
 | 1871 - 784 Seiten
...concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests,...this city be requested to officiate in that service." Only three or four members voted for Franklin's motion. Franklin was human, of which he always had... | |
 | 1872 - 236 Seiten
...and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, ADDRESS OF DR. CRAVEN. 21 That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance...this city be requested to officiate in that service. [The speaker then read the abstract of the debate in the Convention on Franklin's motion, and the following... | |
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I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be... 
