 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 637 strani
...interests ; our projects will be confounded ; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance,... | |
 | 1868
...that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that, without his concurring aid,...we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair... | |
 | 1869
...Writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid...projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall beour national history, at the Philadel- J come a reproach and a by-word down to future ages ; and,... | |
 | Elisha Mulford - 1870 - 418 strani
...the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this ; and I also firmly believe this, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed...we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages."1 President Washington said in his first inaugural, " No people can be bound to... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870
...that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his concurring aid...political building no better than the builders of Babel.' The motion in favor of ' imploring the assistance of Heaven ' before the Convention ' proceeded to... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 269 strani
...live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men ... I also believe that without his concurring aid we...political building no better than the Builders of Babel."" The Importance of Religion for Public Virtue Not only did the American Founders, in general, express... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 845 strani
..."except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe ^Benjamin f this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid...the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison, Gaillard Hunt, James Brown Scott - 1999 - 731 strani
...writings, that " except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. , And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - 1999 - 235 strani
...writings, that "except the Lord build the House they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid...political building no better than the Builders of Babel.33 Nathan O. Hatch has remarked that "the right to think for oneself became . . . the hallmark... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 302 strani
...fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid? . . . without his concurring Aid, we shall succeed in this...political Building no better than the Builders of Babel . . ." (W9:601; cf. 24:6-7). It should be clear that this Divine concern for the success of the American... | |
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