 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1856 - 466 pages
...public summons repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this, my first official act, my fervent supplications to that...in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness... | |
 | John Pickell - 1856 - 216 pages
...other side of the Atlantic, be productive of good consequences. To use your own emphatic words, " May that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who...whose providential aid can supply every human defect, consecrate, to the liberties and happiness of the American people, a government instituted by themselves,... | |
 | John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 pages
...impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official...supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe—who presides in the councils of nations—and whose providential aids can supply every human... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 624 pages
...impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...the councils of nations — and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness... | |
 | John Gaylord Wells - Politicians - 1857 - 150 pages
...impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official...the councils of nations — and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 668 pages
...impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...the councils of nations — and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - Law - 1990 - 200 pages
...acknowledged the Deity in official pronouncements, invoking in his First Inaugural Address the assistance of "that Almighty Being who rules over the universe,...in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect."34 One of Washington's most famous statements on religious freedom... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - Social Science - 1990 - 388 pages
...documents. For example, we find in Washington's first inaugural address of April 30, 1789: It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications that the Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah - Religion - 1991 - 329 pages
...documents. For example, we find in Washington's first inaugural address of April 30, 1789: It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official...in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of... | |
 | Robert Sikorski - Law - 1993 - 512 pages
...nation on Almighty God. These excerpts are from some of their Inaugural Addresses : WASHINGTON — " ... in this first official act my fervent supplications...to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe ..." THOMAS JEFFERSON — ' ' . . . acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence . . . May that... | |
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I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils... 
