 In this situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of...  Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - Seite 571von James Parton - 1864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1878 - 1194 Seiten
...had been in session four or five weeks without making progress, Benjamin Franklin rose and said : " In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers were heard; and they were graciously answered I have lived a long time, and the longer I live, the... | |
 | 1878 - 594 Seiten
...had been in session four or five weeks without making progress, Benjamin Franklin rose and said : " In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers were heard; and they were graciously answered I have lived a long time, and the longer I live, the... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 Seiten
...able to distinguish it when presented to us, low has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights,...understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection.... | |
 | Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 Seiten
...truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened that we have not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights...this room for the divine protection ! our prayers were heard, — and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 Seiten
...to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not yet hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights...of danger, we had daily prayers, in this room, for divine protection ! Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us, who... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 926 Seiten
...to separate without accomplishing the great objects of our meeting, that we have hitherto not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, •were heard, and graciously answered." He closed by saying,... | |
 | 1884 - 934 Seiten
...Father of Light to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britnin, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers, in this room, for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and graciously answered." And Franklin then moved that... | |
 | Robert L. Harford - 1885 - 304 Seiten
...forcibly reminds the convention of this truth, saying with much else that deserves to be engraven, "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in this struggle must have... | |
 | Robert L. Harford - 1885 - 304 Seiten
...we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers were heard and they were graciously answered . All of us who were engaged in this struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending providence in our behalf *... | |
 | George Morgan Browne - 1886 - 212 Seiten
...able to distinguish it when presented to us ; how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights...understandings. " In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
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