 | Lewis C. Munn - Autographs - 1853 - 450 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it 1 Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue 1... | |
 | Presidents - 1853 - 514 pages
...temporary advantages which•jjwght be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be thatrrovidence has connected the permanent felicity of "a nation with...at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennoble.l human nature. Alas ! it is rendered impossible by its vices ! As a very important source... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 604 pages
...plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it 1 Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue 1 The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - Constitutions - 1854 - 422 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? " " The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1904 - 604 pages
...and benevolence," the fruits of which course he assured us would, in the course of time and things, " richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it." What makes our country great in the eyes of the most advanced civilization of the world is not our... | |
 | Paul C. Nagel - History - 1971 - 398 pages
...by an exalted justice and benevolence." To this he added the note of uncertainty which would linger. "Can it be, that Providence has not connected the...Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?" Alas, indeed! Here Washington met the crucial issue in America's struggle to be worthy of its calling.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1961 - 630 pages
...an exalted justice and benevolence. \Vhencvor It is to be doubted that the fruits of such a conduct would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to the plan? Can it be that providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its Virtue?... | |
 | 1976 - 136 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages that might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent... | |
 | Religion - 1980 - 236 pages
...am certainly near the end, and I look forward to the hour of dissolution with perfect resignation. Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? It is impossible to govern the world without God. He must be worse than an infidel that has not gratitude... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. . . . The experiment, at least, is recommended by every...Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?" In any event, the Americans should avoid "permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations... | |
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... can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it ? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and... 
