 | 1802 - Počet stránok 440
...sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our •work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." This was the patriot voice- of Washington... | |
 | 1900 - Počet stránok 342
...dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to whicli the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have gone down... | |
 | 1889 - Počet stránok 1088
...probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - Počet stránok 566
...associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such was the spirit and such the high resolve of the Convention, and out of it was born the Constitution.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - Počet stránok 532
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 25. On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, last... | |
 | 1904 - Počet stránok 850
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Thus did he strike the keynote of the Convention... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - Počet stránok 610
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - Počet stránok 616
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - Počet stránok 266
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - Počet stránok 994
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism.... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which... 
