 | Herbert J. Storing - 1995 - 490 páginas
...delegates' thoughts. "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...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?" Franklin turned the attention of the delegates to the War of Independence by recalling that during... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - 1994 - 868 páginas
...circumstances. 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...applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger... | |
 | Stephen L. Shanklin, Terry Whalin - 1998 - 220 páginas
...unlikely speaker — an eightyone-year-old statesman named Benjamin Franklin. In a quiet voice, he spoke. "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sirs, were heard, and they were graciously answered. . . . And have... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1999 - 836 páginas
...circumstances. 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...thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to uluminate our understandings? In the beginning of. the Contest with G-. Britain, when we were sensible... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2000 - 228 páginas
...compromise and then asked why it was that "this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark . . . [has] not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?" He reminded the delegates that during the contest with Great Britain, the Continental Congress had... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 páginas
...circumstances. 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...understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2003 - 607 páginas
...convention "groping as it were in the dark to find political truth," he said, "how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?" Then he added, in a passage destined to become famous, "The longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 460 páginas
...circumstances. 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...understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection.... | |
 | Brian Cavanaugh T. O. R. - 2004 - 132 páginas
...political truth and scarcely able to distinguish the same when it is presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?" Those early leaders were not all Christians, yet many of them believed in a sovereign God and sought... | |
 | Bill Lewis - 2004 - 218 páginas
...those gathered there of God's supernatural intervention in the Revolutionary War, Franklin declared: In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we' were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously... | |
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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,... 
