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,... Modern Eloquence - Page 5041900Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we...when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers iu this room for the divine protection ! Our prayers, Sir, were heard;—and they were graciously answered.... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...stales all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In tliis situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
| 1818 - 594 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to findpolitical truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 576 pages
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it u hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto ouce thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In tlie... | |
| 1819 - 896 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. " In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour to find political truth, and scarcely in all things, these Indian... | |
| 664 pages
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived. Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginuing of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...how it happened that while ' groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth/ they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their. understandings? — " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, tine... | |
| James Brewster - 1822 - 432 pages
...around Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation pf this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto... | |
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