 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...  Politics and Science - Página 53por William Esslinger - 1955 - 167 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - 1903 - 964 páginas
...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...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 hands of God."... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - 1903 - 586 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1919 - 552 páginas
...heard that statement, he rose from the President's chair and in tones of suppressed emotion, said "Ii is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted,...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."... | |
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1904 - 296 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1905 - 474 páginas
...request. And in an informal discussion, while the convention was waiting for a quorum, Washington said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God."... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - 1905 - 536 páginas
...develop without shock to present State insularity. At one of the early sessions Washington remarked: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...ourselves disapprove how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hand of God."... | |
 | William Coligny Doub - 1905 - 740 páginas
...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... | |
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