 | William Harrison Mace - 1904 - 638 strani
...favor such a convention. would reject their work, but the majority believed with Washington that " if to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? " The small states preferred the old government because it was proposed... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1904 - 1022 strani
..." If, to please the people," said he, " 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 oan repair ; the event is in the hand of God." The Virginia delegates had carefully framed... | |
 | Sarah E. Sprague - 1904 - 272 strani
...thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. 249 MEMORY GEMS. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. — George Wash ing ton . Of all human things, nothing is more honorable, or more excellent, than to... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1905 - 474 strani
...the convention was waiting for a quorum, Washington said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." And it was in that spirit that the work was done and was offered to the people. Those... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - 1905 - 536 strani
...insularity. At one of the early sessions Washington remarked: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict...the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hand of God." This utterance perhaps expresses the purpose which eventually came to rule the decisions... | |
 | William Coligny Doub - 1905 - 740 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...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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 456 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 464 strani
...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...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... | |
 | John Marshall Barker - 1905 - 228 strani
...way towards the realization of a larger social vision. CHAPTER VII THE FORMATION or PUBLIC SENTIMENT Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.— WASHINGTON. Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1905 - 404 strani
...uttered. "If, to please the people," said he, "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 Virginia delegates had carefully framed... | |
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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... 
