 | Ignatius Thomson - Chronology - 1810 - 220 pages
...fruits of fuch a plan w-ould richly repay any temporary advantages which might be loft by a fteady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not...connected the permanent felicity of a nation with virtue ? The experiment, at leaft, is recommended by every fentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas,... | |
 | David Ramsay - Presidents - 1811 - 522 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such...a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages whichmight be lost by a steady adherence. to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1812 - 594 pages
...annihilation. "Can it be," said Washington, " that Providence has not connected the permanent felicfty of a nation with its virtue ! The experiment, at least, is recommended b every sentiment which ennobles human nature." The commissioners are Mess. Jedediah Peck, John Murray,... | |
 | Richard Snowden - America - 1813 - 350 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that in the course of time and things, .the fruits of such...which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can 1 it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity cf a nation with its virtues ? The... | |
 | Albert Picket - American literature - 1820 - 314 pages
...novel example, of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that ia the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantage which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected... | |
 | Rhode Island - Session laws - 1822 - 592 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt, that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas t is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 376 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...be lost by a steady adherence to it' Can it be that Providencehas not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at... | |
 | Thomas Jones Rogers - United States - 1823 - 382 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...richly repay any temporary advantages which might bo lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicitv... | |
 | United States - 1824 - 518 pages
...too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruits of such...? The experiment at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. 23 Who can doubt that in the course of time and things, the fruits of .such...The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? 24 In the execution... | |
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And can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.... 
