 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
 | Nineteenth century - 1901 - 514 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." Some of the fifty-five took no real part in... | |
 | William Winton Goodrich - Lawyers - 1901 - 80 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... | |
 | James Alton James - Local government - 1901 - 420 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." Other signers of the Declaration of Independence... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 494 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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 414 pages
...they waited for commissioners enough to justify them in effecting an organization, and had cried, " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." It was in that spirit that the convention had acted. They had not taken measures to please,... | |
 | John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1903 - 616 pages
...be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? l<et us raise a standard to which...honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." * The convention was organized May 25, and Washington was chosen president. On May 29, Edmund The Virginia... | |
 | Eugene Russell Hendrix - Holy Spirit - 1903 - 244 pages
...conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, 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 the hand of God." Such men make nations and rule the centuries. Personality only can be inspired. The greater... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Colorado - 1903 - 280 pages
...convention: "If to please the people we offer them 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." And on September 17th, 1797, the date on which Washington affixed his handsome signature... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell, Francis Kingsley Ball - Children's literature - 1903 - 280 pages
...every delegate. " If, to please the people," he said, " 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 details of what this convention did would... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1903 - 876 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." Some of the 55 took no real part in framing... | |
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