 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...vain that build it." 1 firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by -word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...vain that build it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...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 - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...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 hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war,... | |
 | 664 pages
...that build • it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages." He then moved, that prayers should be performed in that assembly every morning... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...vain that build it" I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...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... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...believe, that without bis concurring ¡till, we shall succeed in this political building no better tliaa the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our...local interests; our projects will be confounded; aud we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind... | |
 | 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
...vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...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
...vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better...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..;... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, without his concurring aid, we shall proceed in this political building no better than the builders...we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages ; and what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...of his biographers, who was in habits of familiar intercourse with him ; and the concurring aid, we shall 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 be confounded, and we ourselves shall become... | |
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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... 
