 | Louis Albert Banks - 1891 - 278 Seiten
...in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered, To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - 1892 - 888 Seiten
...the dark to Hml political truth, un<l scarce able to dit<tingiiisli it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Light« to illuiuinatc our understandings! In the. beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were... | |
 | 1892 - 702 Seiten
...a similar motion, and said, addressing the President : " In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. ... I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proof... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893 - 412 Seiten
...in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1893 - 402 Seiten
...in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
 | 1904 - 518 Seiten
...opening of meetings of the convention which framed the Articles of Confederation, in 1787, Franklin said, "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. * * * And have... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...our circumstances. the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.— Our prayers, Sir, were heard, & they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - 1996 - 422 Seiten
...surprising still, Ben Franklin, truly a man of the Enlightenment, proposed in the Constitutional Convention that "we have not hitherto once thought of humbly...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings." He implored that this be done, for he noted that "the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - 1995 - 490 Seiten
...in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?" Franklin turned the attention of the delegates to the War of Independence by recalling that during... | |
 | Stephen L. Shanklin, Terry Whalin - 1998 - 220 Seiten
...unlikely speaker — an eightyone-year-old statesman named Benjamin Franklin. In a quiet voice, he spoke. "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sirs, were heard, and they were graciously answered. . . . And have... | |
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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 has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of... 
