| 1818 - 594 páginas
...circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to findpolitical truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 páginas
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
| 1819 - 896 páginas
...the dark to (¡¡ni political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, liow has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger, we bad daily prayers... | |
| 664 páginas
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived. Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
| 1821 - 702 páginas
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 páginas
...how it happened that while ' groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth/ they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their. understandings? — " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, tine... | |
| 1821 - 356 páginas
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish...Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
| John Thornton - 1824 - 394 páginas
...their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 558 páginas
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings .'— In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
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