 In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of...  History of the Life and Times of James Madison - Page 352by William Cabell Rives - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to findpolitical truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, liow has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger,... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
 | 664 pages
...how it happened, that while ' groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth,' they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived. Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us ; how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginuing of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...how it happened that while ' groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth/ they had not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate their. understandings? — " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, tine... | |
 | 1821 - 356 pages
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark, to find political...distinguish it when presented to us ; how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger,... | |
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