 | 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, aud depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 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...their political probation; this is the moment when tha eyes of the world are turned upon them; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - United States - 1915 - 414 pages
...period of " political probation." The moment had come for the United States to determine, said he, " whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation." Three years had now passed and the period of probation seemed to have ended in the ruin of national... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1915 - 552 pages
...Providence; yet how much depends upon our conduct, I repeat it, how much depends upon our conduct, whether we will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable as a Nation. The best things in this imperfect state are liable to be perverted to the worst of purposes. This is... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1915 - 572 pages
...Providence; yet how much depends upon our conduct, I repeat it, how much depends upon our conduct, whether we will be respectable and prosperous, or .contemptible and miserable as a Nation. The best things in this imperfect state are liable to be perverted to the worst of purposes. This is... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 576 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...probation; this is the moment when the eyes of. the world are turned upon them ; this ia the time to establish or ruin their national character forever;... | |
 | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). National Committee, 1916-1920 - Campaign literature - 1916 - 448 pages
...governors of the thirteen States? He then wrote: "It appears to me that there is an option still left the United States of America, whether they will be...probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the world are turned upon them; this is the time to establish or ruin their national character forever."... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 382 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,... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 448 pages
...is ours, if we have a dispositio i to seize the occasion and make it our own ; yet it appears to MvJ 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,... | |
 | Blanton Fortson - 1924 - 24 pages
...is still left to the United States of America, it is in their charge and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or...nation. This is the time of their political probation." The events were proving Washington only too good a prophet. English statesmen were confidently expecting... | |
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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... 
