 | 1802 - 440 pages
...had more than usual solemnity. His eye was fixed, and seemed to look into futurity. " It is (said he) too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conis to be sustained, If, to please the people, we offer what tre ourselves disapprove, how can we... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 342 pages
...remedy would mean disaster to America, and Washington knew it. Rising from his President's chair, he said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose...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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1088 pages
...figure drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan -we propose will be...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - Recitations - 1899 - 266 pages
...organize, when success seemed hopeless, and despair suggested fatal compromise, Washington said, —" If 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... | |
 | 1887 - 636 pages
...closed doors. Washington presided and he succeeded in binding the men together in a common oaase. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose...sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we oarselvee disapprove, how oan we afterward defend oar work? Let as raise a standard to which wise and... | |
 | District of Columbia. Board of Trustees of Public Schools - Education - 1888 - 940 pages
...Washington, standing self-collected in the midst of them, his countenance more than usually solemn, his eyes seeming to look into futurity, said; 'It is too probable...we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work f Let us raise a standard to which tho wise and the honest can repair: the... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1888 - 624 pages
...law, so long as the weakness of human nature shall endure. In tones unwontedly solemn he exclaimed, "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be a ?P eal sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterward... | |
 | Frederick Charles Johnson - Local history - 1888 - 442 pages
...closed doors. Washington presided and be succeeded in blnding the men together in a common cause. He said: "It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict ia to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how oan we afterward... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 420 pages
...occasions Washington is reported by Gouverneur Morris, in a eulogy delivered twelve years later, to have said : " It is too probable that no plan we propose...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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 pages
...figure drawn up to its full height, he exclaimed in tones unwontedly solemn with suppressed emotion, ' It is too probable that no plan we propose will be...conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we ofifer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work P Let us raise a standard... | |
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which... 
