 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 Seiten
...therefore beg leave to move, 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." What a lesson to the legislators of other nations ! («) FORGETTING THE OFFENCE. — A person came... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry - 1877 - 318 Seiten
...therefore beg leave to move 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." What a scene! What a picture it presents to our mind's eye. Franklin's motion, however, was evaded,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 Seiten
...moved: u That henceforth prayers, imploring the 71 III2 BOOK IV. assistance of Heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in this service." Upon a memorandum of this motion, Franklin wrote : " The convention, except three or... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 Seiten
...despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. 5. I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth, prayers,...this city be requested to officiate in that service. " The motion was evaded by an adjournment. It was feared, according to Madison, •lest prayers for... | |
 | 1878 - 1194 Seiten
...fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? .... I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The motion prevailed. These things certainly do not look as though the founders of the Republic thought... | |
 | 1878 - 594 Seiten
...fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? .... I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The motion prevailed. These things certainly do not look as though the founders of the Republic thought... | |
 | Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 Seiten
...leave to move, ' That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing upon our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service.' " TRAJAN AND THE WIDOW. Trajan, the lord of the civilized world, was setting out from his imperial... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in the Assembly every morning before we proceed to business...this city be requested to officiate in that service." The speech which accompanied this motion will forever be conspicuous in our annals. He said : " Mr.... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1880 - 328 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 motion was not successful, but it called forth a record of the venerable philosopher's respect... | |
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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... 
