 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pàgines
...local interests; our projects will be confounded; and wo ourselves shall become a reproach and byword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move... | |
 | 1877 - 972 pàgines
...interests, our projects shall be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may,...wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. The suggestion was not received with favor. The debates on the vexed topic continued more excited and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 pàgines
...interests, our projects shall be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may,...wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. The suggestion was not received with favor. The debates on the vexed topic continued more excited and... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 pàgines
...interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter,...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by hnman wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. I therefore beg leave to move,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 pàgines
...interests; our projects will be confounded; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And, what is worse, mankind may...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. 5. I therefore beg leave to... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pàgines
...interests ; our prospects will be confounded ; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may...government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, or conquest. I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven... | |
 | 1881 - 704 pàgines
...be confounded ; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and by-word down to future ages. And, wiiat is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 pàgines
...interests, succeed no better than the builders of Babel, and become a reproach and by-word to future ages. What is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate...government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance and war." ' The motion was avoided by adjournment. The concurring aid which Franklin invoked im- 29.... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - 1883 - 612 pàgines
...interests ; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages. And, what is worse, — mankind...despair of establishing government by human wisdom, or leave it to chance, war, and conquest." The veteran Christian philosopher then moved that ' Henceforth... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 pàgines
...interests, succeed no better than the builders of Babel, and become a reproach and by-word to future ages. What is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate...government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance and war." * The motion was avoided by adjournment. The concurring aid which Franklin invoked implied... | |
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I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become... 
