 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 840 pages
...drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion: •' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. Jf. to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work?... | |
 | Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw - 1913 - 280 pages
...Constitution at Philadelphia, and cited the noble words used by George Washington at that crisis : " 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 the honest can repair, the... | |
 | Bernhard Ringrose Wise - 1913 - 392 pages
...recalled Washington's appeal to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States :— ' 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... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - 1913 - 332 pages
...order to please the people. Washington put an end to the temporizing policy in these memorable words : "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 the honest can repair ;... | |
 | Bernhard Ringrose Wise - 1913 - 392 pages
...recalled Washington's appeal to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States : — ' 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... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 pages
...chair in which he was presiding, and said with some emotion : "It is but too probable that no plan that we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | 1917 - 812 pages
...interrupted the discussion with an expression of opinion that established his position beyond all question: "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 a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1916 - 362 pages
...Gouverneur Morris — that which forever should be the golden rule of statesmanship in this country 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 a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 pages
...prayer be offered for divine interposition and assistance. Washington declared, with great solemnity: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained." Finally, after a weary struggle that had lasted from the 25th of May until the 17th of September, that... | |
 | 1904 - 790 pages
...more than usual solemnity and grandeur, thus addressed them in tones of suppressed emotion: ''It is probable that no plan we propose will be adopted....sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what \ve ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the... | |
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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... 
