 | 1900 - 342 pages
...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 eone down to history with the greatest utterances of great men. As a result of them... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 pages
...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 was the spirit and such the high resolve of the Convention, and out of it was born... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 pages
...disclose. The equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation, " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Under such guidance, in that temper, with that reliance, the work went forward to its... | |
 | Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...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 is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
 | 1889 - 638 pages
...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 is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
 | 1889 - 650 pages
...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 is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 pages
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." The language is no doubt that of Morris, speaking from memory and in a highly rhetorical... | |
 | New York tribune - 1889 - 140 pages
...disclose. Thre equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation : " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God. (Applause.) KEEPING PACE WITH THE EMPlBE. For the flexibility of unwritten constitutions... | |
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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... 
