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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... "
The Old Stone House, Or, The Patriot's Fireside - Page 118
by Joseph Alden - 1848 - 143 pages
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...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...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...stales all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In tliis situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in...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...
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The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Autobiography

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...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...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...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11

English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our 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,...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate

1819 - 896 pages
...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...applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger,...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Imperial Magazine, Or, Compendium of Religious, Moral ..., Volume 3

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...
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Essays and Letters, Volumes 1-2

Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 23

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 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...
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The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essays

British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in...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...
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