 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1819 - 896 páginas
...the dark to (¡¡ni political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, liow has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once...— In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger, we bad daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection ! Our... | |
 | 664 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 páginas
...round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
 | 1829 - 742 páginas
...Europe, but find none of their constitution* 13 to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth,...of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible uf danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection ! Our prayers, sir, were heard... | |
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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,... 
