 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...•worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business;... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...leave to move, "That henceforth prayers, imploring the assist nee of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | 1821 - 356 pages
...is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | 1831 - 416 pages
...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,...prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly, every morning, before'we proceed to business."... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human •wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be made in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | Jasper Adams - 1833 - 90 pages
...hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, aiid leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I, therefore,...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business:... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - 1833 - 388 pages
...concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. And mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,...wisdom, and leave it to chance, war and conquest." Thus Franklin. As to Jefferson, even he was not one of your thorough going French infidels. He could... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 600 pages
...important instance, despair of establishing government oy human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. " I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its Oiessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
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Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests; our projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. 
