 | William Crawford Armor - 1874 - 634 Seiten
...offering a resolution 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." In the same year the corner-stone of a college to be located at Lancaster, was laid, which in honor... | |
 | William Makepeace Thayer - 1875 - 298 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." His confidence in the Christian religion, and his regard for purity of conduct, did not diminish as... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 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." He showed his remarkable genins for statesmanship in the way he brought to a satisfactory end the bitter... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 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.... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1876 - 878 Seiten
...men" and then moved 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." The resolution was not adopted. On a memorandum of it, Franklin wrote, " The Convention, except three... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
