 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 pages
...CONSTITUTION, 1787. It is too probable that no plan we suggest will be adopted. Perhaps another Ireadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we jurselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise... | |
 | 1892 - 530 pages
...state considerations. Conflicting interests also produced trouble and long debates. Washington said : " If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? " Dr. Hinsdale describes how the Constitution went into operation: after... | |
 | 1892 - 530 pages
...state considerations. Conflicting interests also produced trouble and long debates. Washington said : "If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?" Dr. Hinsdale describes how the Constitution went into operation ; after... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1893 - 1018 pages
...drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed iu tone* unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion — ' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. If to pleiise the people we offur what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work... | |
 | Church congress - 1894 - 824 pages
...In answer to the suggestion that the popular will, whether right or wrong in itself, must be obeyed, he said, " It is too probable that no plan we propose...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... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 556 pages
...organize, when success seemed hopeless and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said : " 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 wise and honest can repair; the event... | |
 | John Fiske - 1895 - 638 pages
...ajuiMi. exclaimetj jn tones unwontedly solemn ( with suppressed emotion, " Itjs too probable that o plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please jthe people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise... | |
 | Percy Alport Molteno - 1896 - 330 pages
...thorough-going reform, suddenly interposed and said in tones unwontedly solemn, with suppressed emotion : " It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise the standard to which the wise and the honest can repair... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1896 - 1000 pages
...of them," had uttered the brave counsels of wisdom in their rebuke. " It is too probable," he said, "that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps...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... | |
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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... 
