 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...  Government in State and Nation - Page 107by James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1912 - 341 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chauncey Mitchell Depew - After-dinner speeches - 1896 - 562 pages
...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 the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." "I am the State," said Louis XIV. ; but his line... | |
 | Ralph Curtis Ringwalt - Orators - 1898 - 360 pages
...25 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 honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." "I am the state," said Louis XIV.; but his 30... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - Readers - 1899 - 384 pages
...frightened, and once he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." After four months' discussion, and after all parties... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - Readers - 1899 - 390 pages
...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 the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." "lam the State," said Louis XIV., but his line... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1900 - 634 pages
...issues involved, he said: * Bancroft's History of the Constitution, II., 5. "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." * The convention was organized May 25, and Washington... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of New Hampshire - Bar associations - 1903 - 1012 pages
...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...wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."2 The general literature of constitutional history and of judicial argument and construction,... | |
 | James Alton James - Local government - 1901 - 420 pages
...the future debates of the Con- Delegates in vention. He said: "It is too probable no plan we n nce ' propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...Massachusetts, Caleb Strong, Nathaniel Gorham, and Rufns King. Delaware sent John Dickinson,* who reported the Articles of Confederation to Congress.... | |
 | James Alton James - Local government - 1901 - 408 pages
...future debates of the Con- Deieg«ten in vention. He said : " It is too probable no plan we attendance propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...Franklin were Roger Sherman, of Connecticut; George Bead, of Delaware ; Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts; Robert Morris, of Pennsylvania ; and Chancellor... | |
 | Readers - 1901 - 390 pages
...Convention was called of which Washington was president. In it he arose and said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God." But dissensions, strifes, differences as to taxation... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 538 pages
...brought the 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...work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hands of God." " 1 am the state," said Louis XIV., but his line... | |
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