 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1913 - 280 str.
...Constitution at Philadelphia, and cited the noble words used by George Washington at that crisis : " 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." Mr. Macrossan appealed to the members of... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - 1913 - 332 str.
...order to please the people. Washington put an end to the temporizing policy in these memorable words : "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." After some discussion, the attempt to revise... | |
 | 1913 - 232 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...to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer *John Fiske, "The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789". what we ourselves disapprove, how... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 844 str.
...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...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. Jf. to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work?... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 str.
...chair in which he was presiding, and said with some emotion : "It is but too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Prom that time the argument in favor of a... | |
 | 1914 - 310 str.
...new Constitution. Washington was among the latter, and his words at the time are well worth quoting. "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 honest can repair; the event... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 str.
...prayer be offered for divine interposition and assistance. Washington declared, with great solemnity: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained." Finally, after a weary struggle that had lasted from the 25th of May until the 17th of September, that... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 610 str.
...Washingplan we propose will be adopted. Per- s°"e^n haps another dreadful conflict is to be aPPeal 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 the wise and the honest can repair ; the... | |
 | John Thomas Morris Johnston - 1917 - 662 str.
...rose from the chair and made a brief and effective speech. He said: "It is too probable that no plan will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." These telling... | |
 | 1904 - 790 str.
...more than usual solemnity and grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion: ''It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what \ve ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the... | |
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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... 
