 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own; yet it appears to me there is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous,... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 654 pages
...notwithstanding . . . happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own; yet it appears to me there is an option still left to the United States of America, that ... it depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible... | |
 | Orators - 1900 - 526 pages
...was definitely expressed by Washington when he said : " There is an option left to the United States whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a nation.'' Our national self-respect would not be increased when Turkey, as a debt-paying nation, shall be held... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 384 pages
...circular letter to the Governors, where, after announcing that it is for the United States to determine " whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation," Washington proceeds to name first among the things essential to national well-being, if not even to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own; yet it appears to me there is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous,... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 568 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own; yet it appears to me there is an option still left to...the whole world are turned upon them; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent - American literature - 1905 - 558 pages
...still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or...moment to establish or ruin their national character for ever ; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our federal government, as will enable... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - Constitutional history - 1906 - 332 pages
...also wrote a circular letter to the Governors of the States, in which he said of the United States: "This is the time of their political probation; this...them ; this is the moment to establish or ruin their political character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our federal government,... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Maine - 1914 - 600 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own ; yet it appears to me, there is an option still left to the United States of America, — that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion and make it our own ; yet it appears to me, there is an option still left to the United States of America, — that it is in their choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and... | |
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Such is our situation, and such are our prospects. But notwithstanding the cup of blessing is thus reached out to us ; notwithstanding happiness is ours, if we have a disposition to seize the occasion, and make it our own ; yet it appears to me there... 
