 | 1802 - 440 strani
...please the people, we offer what tre 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." This was the patriot voice- of Washington ; and this the constant tenor of his conduct.... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 strani
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves 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 God.' Thirdly, among the fifty-five delegates at the Convention were not only shrewd and practical... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 strani
...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." 1 25. On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, last of the seven states needed to form a house,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 strani
...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." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing the seven states needed to form a house,... | |
 | 1904 - 850 strani
...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." Thus did he strike the keynote of the Convention and brace it to its highest ideals.... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 strani
...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." f On the twenty-fifth, New Jersey, completing the seven states needed to form a house,... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 strani
...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." This outburst of noble eloquence carried conviction to every one, and henceforth we do... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - 1888 - 940 strani
...ourselves 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 God.' " (For an object lesson in the use of evidence, compare Fiske, Critical Period, p. 232. For another... | |
 | 1889 - 1264 strani
...please the people, we ofifer what we ourselves 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 God.' Thirdly, among the fifty-five delegates at the Convention •were not only shrewd and... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - 500 strani
...people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." 1 Johnston: Lalor's Cyclopa9dla of Political Science, "The Convention of 1787." CHAPTEK... | |
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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... 
