 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1966 - 920 pages
...459, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. * For example : On April 30, 1789, President George Washington said: ". . . it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who Footnote 3 — Continued. rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - Constitutional history - 1970 - 84 pages
...peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. . . . Such being the impressions under which I have . . . repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this firát official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe .... | |
 | Glen E. Thurow - Political Science - 1976 - 146 pages
...impressive supplication, other than Lincoln's, is found in Washington's First Inaugural Address: ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...whose providential aids can supply every human defect. ... In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...of the foundations of political morality. In his first inaugural address Washington acknowledged his "fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the council of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect. . . ." Jefferson, who... | |
 | Merrill Jensen, Robert A. Becker, Gordon DenBoer - Political Science - 1976 - 542 pages
...its consequences be judged by my country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated. Such being the impressions under which I have, in...supplications to that Almighty being who rules over the universe,—who presides in the Councils of nations,—and whose providential aids can supply even... | |
 | Administrative law - 1990 - 384 pages
...before God and seek His counsel and favor on our land, and join with our first President who said, ". . .it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first...to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe. . .that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States,... | |
 | 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,...and whose providential aids can supply every human defect."34 One of Washington's most famous statements on religious freedom occurred in a reply to the... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - Social Science - 1990 - 388 pages
...official 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
...official 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...nations, and whose providential aids can supply every defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United... | |
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Such being the 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 act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe;... 
