 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...  The Trumpeters of the Constitution - Página 19por Charles Warren - 1927 - 85 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1802 - 440 páginas
...adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conis to be sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend...•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... | |
 | 1845 - 286 páginas
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 | 1900 - 342 páginas
...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 can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have gone down to history with the greatest utterances of great men. As... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 páginas
...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.... | |
 | 1958 - 604 páginas
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 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 páginas
...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 the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 25. On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, last... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1883 - 706 páginas
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 | 1904 - 850 páginas
...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 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 páginas
...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 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 páginas
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." There spoke the good genius of America. If any words were to be inscribed upon this... | |
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