...other side of the Atlantic, be productive of good consequences. To use your own emphatic words, " May that almighty Being who rules over the universe, who...whose providential aids can supply every human defect, consecrate to the liberties and happinefs of the American people, a government instituted by themselves,...

...other side of the Atlantic, be productive of good consequences. To use your own emphatic words, " May that almighty Being who rules over the universe, who...whose providential aids can supply every human defect, consecrate to the liberties and happinefs of the American people, a government instituted by themselves,...

...other side of the Atlantic, be productive of good consequences. " To use your .own emphatic words, may that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe —...the Councils of Nations — and whose providential aid can supply every human defect — consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the American people,...

...study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be effected. All I dare hope is, that, if in accepting this task,...providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benedic- CHAP. m. tion may consecrate to the liberties and happiness 1739. of the people of the United...

...under which I have, in obedience to the publick summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...and whose providential aids can supply every human defecj, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United...

...under which I hav«, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the univere,. who presides in the councils of nations, and whose. providential aids can supply every human...

...consulted my incapacity, as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me ; my ERUOH will be palliated by the motives which misled me,...rules over the universe ; who presides in the councils -af nations ; and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate...

...under which I have, in obediei'je to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who,rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can...

...station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in Oía first official act, my fervent supplication? to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe,...the councils of nations, and whose providential aids ctn supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of...

...the diffidence with which he entered upon an office, so full of responsibility, he proceeded thus : " It will be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first...universe ; who presides in the councils of nations," Sec, Thus did Washington, in the commencement of his administration, publickly appear on the side of...