 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...  Some Prominent Virginia Families - Page 150by Louise Pecquet du Bellet - 1907Full view - About this book
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1903 - 980 pages
...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." Is not this the spirit to actuate us? Appeals... | |
 | New Hampshire. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1903 - 964 pages
...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." Is not this the spirit to actuate us? Appeals... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 560 pages
...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 wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." From that time the argument in favor of a... | |
 | 1919 - 552 pages
...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...honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." Professor Fisk has well said that those words ought to be written on the walls of every legislative... | |
 | David Gregg, Sidney Howard Carney (Jr) - United States - 1904 - 498 pages
...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 the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." The proceedings of the Convention, which lasted... | |
 | Henry William Elson - History - 1904 - 1022 pages
...statesman ever uttered. " If, to please the people," said he, " 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 oan repair ; the event is in the hand of God." The Virginia delegates had carefully framed... | |
 | Lorin Gurney Sampson Farr - Conduct of life - 1904 - 218 pages
...to undertake the work, I decline all pay and emoluments, only asking Congress to defray my expenses. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The greatest of English Statesmen and Orators. EDMUND BURKE. THE LOGOS OF BURKE ON THE IDEAL STATE. The... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - Readers - 1904 - 272 pages
...thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 249 MEMORY GEMS. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. — George Wash ing ton . Of all human things, nothing is more honorable, or more excellent, than to... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 464 pages
...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...honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State." said Louis XIV ; but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty centuries... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - Presidents - 1905 - 536 pages
...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 wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hand of God." This utterance perhaps expresses the purpose which eventually came to rule the decisions... | |
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