 I firmly believe this ; and 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,...  The Thomsonian Recorder - Page 921834Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...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...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byeword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is •worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | 664 pages
...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...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages." He then moved, that prayers should be performed in that assembly every morning before they proceeded... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...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...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bv-word down to future ases." He Edible Birds' Nats. ANOTHF.R. IN the middle of the last century, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...proceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages ; and what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...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...we ourselves shall become a • • •< reproach none, the Americans will find, and at no very remote time, that the want of an adequate provision for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our litde, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a I..; .. . reproach none, the Americans will find, and at no very remote time, that the want of an adequate... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...proceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages ; and what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by onr little partial local interests, our projects will...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages ; and, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...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...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government... | |
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