 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...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, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth prayers, imploring the assisUnce of Heaven,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...and a byeword 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, and conquest. "I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, "That henceforth prayers, imploring the assist nee of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...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, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...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, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...and a bye-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, and conquest." — 'Ifemoin of Franklin, vol. ii. p. 194. following extract from the eloquent pen of... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 558 pages
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. " I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth...of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...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, and conquest. " I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. " I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth,...of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the... | |
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I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... 
