 | 1802 - 440 sider
...adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conis to be sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend...standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." This was the patriot voice- of Washington ; and this the constant... | |
 | 1900 - 342 sider
...to be sustained. If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have gone down to history with the... | |
 | 1889 - 1088 sider
...probable that no plan -we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves...disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the event is in the hand of... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 sider
...unselfish patriotism. Once when the prospect seemed dark, Washington, addressing his associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 sider
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | 1904 - 850 sider
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 sider
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 sider
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If to please the people we offer what we ourselves...work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God." There spoke the good genius of America. If any... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 sider
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair; the... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 sider
...probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
