| 1802 - 440 str.
...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 - 342 str.
...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 disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest... | |
| 1889 - 1088 str.
...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 P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 str.
...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... | |
| George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 str.
...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...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 - 850 str.
...: "It is 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...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 - 610 str.
...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...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 - 616 str.
...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...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 - 266 str.
...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 - 994 str.
...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...in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty centuries look down upon yon,"... | |
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