 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...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...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
 | 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...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...suitable to our circumstances. 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 as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
 | 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...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ? — In the beginning of the contest with Britain, wheu we were sensible of danger, we bad daily prayers... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish...Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings ? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, 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 that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 558 pages
...suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish...Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings .'— In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers... | |
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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... 
