 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 344 pages
...Washington knew it. Rising from his President's chair, he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the event is in the hand of... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1921 - 566 pages
...unselfish patriotism. Once when the prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - Constitutional history - 1882 - 532 pages
...than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 610 pages
...than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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 England - 1904 - 850 pages
...solemnity and grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion : "It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1885 - 616 pages
...than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 1044 pages
...assemblage to the lofty plane of its duty and opportunity. He said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...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... | |
 | 1887 - 636 pages
...succeeded in binding the men together in a common oaase. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we oarselvee disapprove, how oan we afterward defend oar work? Let as raise a standard to which wise and... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - Education - 1888 - 942 pages
...than usually solemn, his eyes seeming to look into futurity, said; 'It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work f Let us raise a standard to which tho wise and the honest can repair: the event is in the hands of... | |
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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... 
