| South Dakota Bar Association - 1897 - 524 páginas
...contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of dangei, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintending... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Foreign AFfairs - 1939 - 658 páginas
...the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances... | |
| 1904 - 518 páginas
...opening of meetings of the convention which framed the Articles of Confederation, in 1787, Franklin said, "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. * * * And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend, or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance?... | |
| Stephen L. Shanklin, Terry Whalin - 1998 - 220 páginas
...unlikely speaker — an eightyone-year-old statesman named Benjamin Franklin. In a quiet voice, he spoke. "In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, sirs, were heard, and they were graciously answered. . . . And have we now forgotten this powerful... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 316 páginas
...the Constitutional Convention, Franklin went still further toward recognizing special providences: In the Beginning of the Contest with Britain, when...sensible of Danger, we had daily Prayers in this Room for the Divine Protection. Our Prayers, Sir, were heard; — and they were graciously answered. All of... | |
| James Campbell - 1999 - 322 páginas
...the Contest with Britain, when we were sensible of Danger, we had daily Prayers in this Room for the Divine Protection. Our Prayers, Sir, were heard; — and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engag'd in the Struggle, must have observed frequent Instances of a superintending... | |
| Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 páginas
...hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection! Our prayers, sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us,... | |
| John W. Lawrence - 132 páginas
...hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection! Our prayers, Sir, were heard;- and they were graciously answered. All of us... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 páginas
...the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine protection! Our prayers, sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintending... | |
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