 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1893 - 540 páginas
...the dark to lind 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? lu the beginning of the contest with Britain, when wo were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1893 - 1072 páginas
...Franklin moved for prayer in the Fedoral convention ho gave the following reason: " How has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understanding-*? Tho longer I live the more convincing proofs I see uf this truth, that God governs... | |
 | Israel Smith Clare - 1893 - 766 páginas
...opinions, and now ready to separate without accomplishing the great objects of our meeting, that we hare not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 páginas
...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 Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection.... | |
 | 1897 - 976 páginas
...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 G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1954 - 98 páginas
...a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. How has it happened, sir, tliat we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illumine our understanding? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing... | |
 | Gary C. Bryner, Noel B. Reynolds - 1987 - 206 páginas
...beginning of the Contest with G{reat] Britain," Franklin had reaffirmed to the Philadelphia Convention, "when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer...in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers . . . were heard, and they were graciously answered . . . the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 páginas
...round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 páginas
...beginning of the Contest with G[reat] Britain," Franklin had reaffirmed to the Philadelphia Convention, "when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer...in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers . . . were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must... | |
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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 lights... 
