 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 648 str.
...doubtless on one of these occasions that, according to Gouverneur Morris, he said in substance: "It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....If, to please the people, we offer what We Ourselves disap- State House, Philadelphia, 1776 1787 afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to... | |
 | Beverley Bland Munford - 1909 - 360 str.
...convention, George Washington was called to preside. Hesitancy and weakness were banished by his words: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we are for what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - 1909 - 414 str.
...vote, and I shall always cast that against wrong as long as I live." Two BOYS FROM WASHINGTON GROUP : " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?" Two BOYS FROM LINCOLN GROUP : Lincoln said, " In every event of life, it is right makes might." ALL... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1908 - 418 str.
...debates of the Con- Delegates in vention. He said : " It is too probable no plan we attendancepropose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God." Other signers of the Declaration of Independence... | |
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - 1910 - 390 str.
...sense of Washington brought the assemblage to the lofty plane of its duty and opportunity. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | 1913 - 658 str.
...the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia: "It is too probable," he is said to have exclaimed, "that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | 1911 - 254 str.
...citizens to its people. First and last, let us be honest with ourselves, remembering Washington's words : "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - 1911 - 268 str.
...differences ,among fEe sectionalistic and localistic states that were believed to be more serious. "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted," the most eminent American had admitted in 1787 when he confronted the task of finding a working basis... | |
 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - 1912 - 688 str.
...figure drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...the people, we- offer what we ourselves disapprove, now can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair;... | |
 | Max Farrand - 1913 - 324 str.
...interrupted the discussion with an expression of opinion that established his position beyond all question: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." Furthermore, in the convention itself, where... | |
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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 afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
