 | Frederick Converse Beach - 1903 - 872 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...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... | |
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - 1903 - 1108 str.
...bring their work to naught, he said: '' It is all too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. 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 hands of God." Is not this the spirit to actuate us? Appeals... | |
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - 1903 - 964 str.
...their work to naught, he said: '' It is all too probable that no plan. we propose will be adopted. 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 hands of God." Is not this the spirit to actuate us? Appeals... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 592 str.
...hour. He closed his eloquent appeal to the convention at its opening session with these solemn words: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. . . . Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hands... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 586 str.
...hour. He closed his eloquent appeal to the convention at its opening session with these solemn words: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadfut conflict is to be sustained. . . . Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - 1903 - 280 str.
..." If, to please the people," he said, " 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 event is in the hand of God." The details of what this convention did would... | |
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1904 - 296 str.
...broad-minded men to effect a compromise. When certain measures were disapproved by Washington, he said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in... | |
 | David Gregg, Sidney Howard Carney (Jr) - 1904 - 498 str.
...Constitution for the United States. Washington, who was chosen its president, said in his opening address: "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 the honest can repair. The... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1909 - 684 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....we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we The State House, Philadelphia, 1776 ( From print in the collection of CS Keyser) 1787 afterwards defend... | |
 | William Harrison Mace - 1904 - 638 str.
...favor such a convention. would reject their work, but the majority believed with Washington that " if to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? " The small states preferred the old government because it was proposed... | |
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