 | 1802 - 440 strani
...adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conis to be sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend...•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... | |
 | 1900 - 342 strani
...knew it. Rising from his President's chair, he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 strani
...exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 strani
...unselfish patriotism. Once when the prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 strani
...usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
 | 1904 - 850 strani
...grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion : "It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 strani
...solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 strani
...solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 strani
...disclose. The equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation, " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Under such guidance, in that temper, with that reliance, the work went forward to its... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 strani
...the lofty plane of its duty and opportunity. He said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...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... | |
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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 afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the... 
