 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, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be...  Sunday Afternoon - Page 631878Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. "I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth...assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. "[Note... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or iHOK' of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. [Note by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, That henceforth prayers, imploring the assisUnce of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service. QNote... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...therefore beg leave to move, • «' That henceforth prayers, impioiing the assistance of Heaven, and ils blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business; and that one or more of the clergy of Ibis city be requested to officiate in that service." Dr. Franklin... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service." SPEECH... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth,...assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service." SPEECH... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...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 blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...instance, despair of establishing governments 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 blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business... | |
 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. "I therefore beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers,...deliberations, be held in this assembly, every morning, before'we proceed to business." That august assembly, composed not of ephemeral politicians, but of... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...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,...Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be made in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business ; and that one or more of the clergy... | |
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