| College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 342 pages
...If to please the people we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterward defend our work. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." Those words have eone down to history with the greatest utterances of great men. As a result of them... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1921 - 566 pages
...associates, said : offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us here raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Such was the spirit and such the high resolve of the Convention, and out of it was born... | |
| Walter K. Fobes - Recitations - 1899 - 266 pages
...disclose. The equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation, " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God." Under such guidance, in that temper, with that reliance, the work went forward to its... | |
| Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts - 1887 - 994 pages
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the State," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
| 1889 - 638 pages
...to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
| Church and the world - 1889 - 650 pages
...to please the people we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair ; the event is in the hands of God." " I am the state," said Louis the Fourteenth, but his line ended in the grave of absolutism. " Forty... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 pages
...to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God." The language is no doubt that of Morris, speaking from memory and in a highly rhetorical... | |
| New York tribune - 1889 - 140 pages
...disclose. Thre equable and steadfast tenor of his mind was exemplified in his well-known exclamation : " Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God. (Applause.) KEEPING PACE WITH THE EMPlBE. For the flexibility of unwritten constitutions... | |
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