...excellent example of an effort to say something, but a total failure. Here is a part of said letter: " With the impression under which I have, in obedience to...improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplication to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations,...

...returned to the Senate chamber, and as he closed his inaugural speech, trembling with emotion, he said : " It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who presides in the councils of nations, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness...

...by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons,...would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first oflScial act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides...

...by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons,...official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Bern r who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential...

...and upon the conscience and conduct of the nation. Washington, in his first inaugural address, said : "It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules the universe, who presides at the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every...

...myself, may, if attended to on the other side of the Atlantic, be productive of good consequences. Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aid can supply every human defect," consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the American people,...

...devout spirit which was one of the characteristics of his greatness, when he reverently proclaimed, "It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...over the universe, who presides in the councils of the nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate...

...man, like marriage or the parental relation. Our own Washington in his inaugural address makes his fervent supplications to "that Almighty Being who...nations, and whose Providential aids can supply every defect." The Calvinists, who so strongly impressed our political institutions, were such firm believers...

...answered this summons, it would be improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplication to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of the nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benedictions may consecrate...

...viz., the spiritual, it follows that his is the higher; but only in spiritual, not in secular, affairs. who presides in the councils of nations, and whose Providential aids can supply every defect." The Calvinists, who so strongly impressed our political institutions, were such firm believers...