| 1900 - 342 páginas
...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 can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have eone down to history with the greatest utterances of great men. As... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 páginas
...associates, said : 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.... | |
| Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 páginas
...demagogue, the voice of Washington will still be the voice of American patriotism and of manly honor, — " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." THE BIRTHDAY OF WASHINGTON. RUFUS CHOATE. THE birthday of the " Father of his Country... | |
| Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 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 hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism.... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 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 language is no doubt that of Morris, speaking from memory and in a highly rhetorical vein, but... | |
| New York tribune - 1889 - 140 páginas
...disclose. Thre equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation : " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God. (Applause.) KEEPING PACE WITH THE EMPlBE. For the flexibility of unwritten constitutions there was... | |
| 1889 - 638 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 hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism.... | |
| 1889 - 650 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 hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism.... | |
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