 | 1802 - 440 páginas
...sustained, If, to 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... | |
 | 1900 - 342 páginas
...America, and Washington knew it. Rising from his President's chair, he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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 páginas
...full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 páginas
...countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said: " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 páginas
...countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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... | |
 | 1904 - 850 páginas
...usual solemnity and grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion : "It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 páginas
...countenance more than usually solemn, his eye seeming to look into futurity, said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 páginas
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" 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 wise and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | 1887 - 636 páginas
...presided and he succeeded in binding the men together in a common oaase. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we oarselvee disapprove, how oan we afterward defend oar work? Let as raise a standard to which wise and... | |
 | John Fiske - 1888 - 408 páginas
...wiemn appeal exclaime(i in j,,1M.s unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another...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... | |
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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... 
