 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...for serious consideration of the subject. He concluded this speech to the following effect : — " The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continued reasoning with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question — several... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...for serious consideration of the subject. He concluded this speech to the following effect : — " The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continued reasoning with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question — several... | |
 | Joseph Alden - Brothers - 1848 - 156 pages
...without accomplishing any thing. While things were in this state, Dr. Franklin arose and said : — " ' Mr. President, the small progress we have made after...each other, our different sentiments on almost every subject is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. In the situation... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1848 - 908 pages
...attended in the convention every morning, and in support of his motion, thus addressed the president : " Mr. President : The small progress we have made after four or five weeks of close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our différent sentiments on almost every... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - Anecdotes - 1850 - 882 pages
...attended in the convention every morning, and in support of liis motion, thus addressed the president : " Mr. President : The small progress we have made after four or five weeks of close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...off till to-morrow, at the request of the Deputies from New-York," when Dr. Franklin arose, and said: "MR. PRESIDENT, — The small progress we have made...close attendance and continual reasonings with each other—our different sentiments on almost every questiori, several of the last producing as many noes... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Oratory - 1852 - 310 pages
...lives in the silent tear LESSON CXIX. GOD GOVERNS IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN—FIANKUJC MR. PRESIDENT.—The small progress we have made after four or five weeks...close attendance and continual reasonings. with each other—our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1854 - 646 pages
...words as reported by Madison. • Debates in the Federal Convention, June 28, 1787. Dr. Franklin said : Mr. President, the small progress we have made after...continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiment on almost every question — several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks,... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow Johnson - 1856 - 94 pages
...or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiment on almost every question — several of the last producing...human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1856 - 554 pages
...different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Jlyes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection...seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since VOL. v. 20 we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for... | |
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MR. PRESIDENT : The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks,... 
