 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pągines
...in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought...danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protec- , tion! Our prayers, sir, were heard; — and they were graciouslv answered. All of us, who... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pągines
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we...when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers iu this room for the divine protection ! Our prayers, Sir, were heard;—and they were graciously answered.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pągines
...circumstances. 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 as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pągines
...the dark to (””ni political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, liow has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once...— In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger, we bad daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection ! Our... | |
 | 664 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pągines
...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 pągines
...circumstances. 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...Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginuing of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this... | |
 | 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 pągines
...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... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pągines
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, 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 that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 562 pągines
...circumstances. 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...Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily pmyers in this room for the divine protection ! Our prayers, sir, were heard ;-—and they were graciously... | |
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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 lights,... 
