 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 Seiten
...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not yet hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father...of danger, we had daily prayers, in this room, for divine protection ! Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us, who... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1876 - 878 Seiten
...ready to separate -without accomplishing the great objects of our meeting, that -we have hitherto not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and graciously answered." He closed by saying, " The... | |
 | 1877 - 972 Seiten
...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...danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection 1 Our prayers, sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 Seiten
...anything, the venerable Dr. Franklin, then eighty-two years of age, arose in his place and said : " How has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard ; and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry - 1877 - 318 Seiten
...this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection! Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 Seiten
...the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has lt, nor of any grant hnd daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection! Our prayers, sir, were heard; and they were... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 Seiten
...the dark, to find political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, how lias it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, and when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection.... | |
 | 1904 - 518 Seiten
...opening of meetings of the convention which framed the Articles of Confederation, in 1787, Franklin said, "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. * * * And have... | |
 | Barry Alan Shain - 1996 - 422 Seiten
...surprising still, Ben Franklin, truly a man of the Enlightenment, proposed in the Constitutional Convention that "we have not hitherto once thought of humbly...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings." He implored that this be done, for he noted that "the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - 1995 - 490 Seiten
...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...Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?" Franklin turned the attention of the delegates to the War of Independence by recalling that during... | |
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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard ; and they were graciously answered. 
