 | 1878 - 1194 páginas
...had been in session four or five weeks without making progress, Benjamin Franklin rose and said : " 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 were heard; and they were graciously answered I have lived a long... | |
 | John Stevens C. Abbott - 1879 - 418 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...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... | |
 | Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 páginas
...have not 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 were heard, — and they were graciously answered. All of us, who... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth - 1880 - 330 páginas
...At this Convention he introduced a resolution for daily prayers. In supporting the motion, he said : "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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1881 - 926 páginas
...hitherto not once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...divine protection. Our prayers, sir, •were heard, and graciously answered." He closed by saying, " The longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 páginas
...the following speech in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. The speaker was in his Sad year: — 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 who... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1911 - 650 páginas
...the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger 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... | |
 | 1889 - 992 páginas
...to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the Divine protection. Our prayers were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were... | |
 | 1914 - 594 páginas
...not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when...sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered." After a few more remarks, Franklin moved that " henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven... | |
 | John Greener Hallimond - 1916 - 266 páginas
...of the contest with Great Britain," he said, " when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for 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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In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard; and they were graciously answered. All of us, who were engaged in the struggle, must... 
