 | Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
...congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications * * * that the virtue and happiness of the people may be...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." The Senate returned a cordial answer, but in the House there was considerable debate over a number... | |
 | William Jackson Johnstone - History - 1919 - 332 pages
...cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country, on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe and Sovereign Arbiter of the United States, that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved; and that the government,... | |
 | Edna Mary Colman - Presidents - 1925 - 404 pages
...Supreme Ruler and Arbiter of Nations, that His care may still be extended to the United States; and that the virtue and happiness of the people may be...the protection of their liberties may be perpetual." Washington had persistently refused to consider a third term, despite the pressure brought to bear... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1926 - 600 pages
...can not omit the occasion to congratulate you, and my country, on the success of the experiment; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, and sovereign CHAP, rv arbiter of nations, that his providential care may still be extended to the United States;... | |
 | United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission - 1931 - 440 pages
...cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country, on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...protection of their liberties, may be perpetual." President Washington persistently refused to consider a third term, despite the pressure brought to... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 pages
...and so justly called forth. . . . "I cannot omit the occasion now to repeat my fervent supplication to the Supreme Ruler of the universe and Sovereign...care may still be extended to the United States." TO THE CLERGY OF DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS, PHILADELPHIA (1797) "Believing as I do that religion and... | |
 | Mazdaznan - 1921 - 798 pages
...I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment, nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...Arbiter of Nations, that His providential care may be still extended to the United States; that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved,... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my country on the success of the experiment; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...Arbiter of nations, that His providential care may be extended to the United States; that the virtue and happiness of the people may be preserved, and... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...cannot omit the occasion, to congratulate you and my Country, on the success of the experiment; nor to repeat my fervent supplications to the Supreme...instituted, for the protection of their liberties, may be perpetual.92 On May 30, 1799, only six months before his death, George Washington corresponded with... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...successes thus far. Aware of how youthful and tenuous the American experiment was, he concludes by offering "fervent supplications to the Supreme Ruler of the...care may still be extended to the United States." The sentiment served as a pair of bookends to the speech, for Washington had begun by expressing "gratitude... | |
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... for the last time, in the midst of the representatives of the people of the United States, naturally recalls the period when the administration of the present form of government commenced ; and I cannot omit the occasion to congratulate you and my... 
