 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 American Monthly Review of Reviews - Página 173editado por - 1901Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Norman Guthrie - 1919 - 430 páginas
...and give ye heed to the exalted, inspired words of George Washington, the father of his country: — "L.ET US RAISE A STANDARD, TO WHICH THE WISE, AND...HONEST CAN REPAIR; THE EVENT IS IN THE HAND OF GOD!" (Here the flag is raised to the singing of the first stanza of "The Star Spangled Banner") THE CHIEF... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919 - 438 páginas
...constitutional convention might serve as a motto for the best efforts of liberty wherever free men strive : " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hand of God." Lincoln was the supreme American of our history. In Clay, East and West were mixed without being fused... | |
 | 1926 - 666 páginas
...pointing to the Zenith an inspiration of single purpose to the best and reminiscent of his own words, "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." Then our magnificent Capitol, with its graceful dome, the public home of so many megaphones as well... | |
 | Charles W. Wallis - 1919 - 96 páginas
...and dignity on these proceedings and hold up a light which sooner or later will have its influence. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is with God." The Secretary may now call the roll of Nations. (They may be seated in groups as by Continents... | |
 | William Jackson Johnstone - 1919 - 332 páginas
...Constitutional Convention," which met in Philadelphia. When he took the chair, he said, "Let us raise the standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God."192 GOES TO CHURCH From the following entries in his diary we learn that during the convention... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 730 páginas
...to please the people, 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 is in the hand of God." After the convention decided to make a new constitution, its first difficult problem was the question... | |
 | National Institute of Social Sciences - 1920 - 210 páginas
...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 is in the hand of God." The mere submission to the caprices of an alleged, and often imaginary, majority was not Washington's... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1920 - 288 páginas
...please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, however can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair: the event is in the hand of God." WASHINGTON FOUNDATIONS OF OUR GOVERNMENT OUTLINE OF CONTENTS I. THE COMMON GOOD 1. Rights of the minority... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1920 - 1122 páginas
...the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such was the spirit and such the high resolve of the Convention, and out of it was born the Constitution.... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1969 - 44 páginas
...George Washington carrying on the spirit of his magnificent words to the Continental Convention in 1787: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." EM ELLER, R Adm. COVER: "The most bold and daring act of the age."-—Horatio Nelson.... | |
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