 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 375 Seiten
...interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by- word down to future ages; and, what is worse, mankind may...this city be requested to officiate in that service." Such were his intellectual views, though we would by no means propound these as conclusive evidence... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1855 - 408 Seiten
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth...this city be requested to officiate in that service." This is not the language of one who looked on God as inexorable, or in other words, as a LaV-giver... | |
 | 1855 - 408 Seiten
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth...this city be requested to officiate in that service." This is not the language of one who looked on God as inexorable, or in other words, as a Law-giver... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1856 - 612 Seiten
...And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of estab lishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance,...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."... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow Johnson - 1856 - 82 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." By following this plan the usage of employing men of different religious denominations would no longer... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 367 Seiten
...therefore beg leave to more that, henceforth, prayers imploring the 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 the service." Ami there were those among the statesmen of that day who, though the champions of religions... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 367 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...the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in the service." And there were those among the statesmen of that day who, though the champions of religious... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856
...resolutions in speeches of considerable power ; one of which, to his infinite honour, concluded by moving that " henceforth prayers imploring the assistance...assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The memorable words with which he accompanied this motion will well bear transcribing : — " I have... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857
...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. LESSON XI. EMINENT STATESMEN OF THE REVOLUTION. — SPAKKH. [See Rule 1, p. 154.] 1. The acts of the... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1857
...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... | |
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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... 
