 | Henry Flanders - Constitutional law - 1999 - 314 pages
...guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things,-the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary...? The experiment at least is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1999 - 374 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Cap it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue ?... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...would richly repay any temporary advantages that might he lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it he, that Providence has not connected, the permanent felicity...The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution... | |
 | Owen Collins - History - 1999 - 464 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages that might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent... | |
 | Ralph C. Hancock - Education - 1999 - 196 pages
...require the support of a mild and liberal religion: "Can it be," Washington asks in his Farewell Address, "that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?" But it would be dogmatic and therefore impossible to ground this liberty, moderately private and moderately... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 416 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such...The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution... | |
 | Curtis Hutson - Political Science - 2000 - 264 pages
...am certainly near the end, and I look forward to the hour of dissolution with perfect resignation. Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? It is impossible to govern the world without God. He must be worse than an infidel that has not gratitude... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such...The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! Is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution... | |
 | Joy Hakim - America - 2003 - 356 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such...connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtues? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas!... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - Religion - 2002 - 637 pages
...factions. Reminding his fellow Americans of the republican calculus was central to Washington's purpose: "Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?" For maintaining that virtue, Washington evoked religion. That evocation so clearly announced the priority... | |
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And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.... 
