 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...stales all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In tliis situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how as it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to findpolitical truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. scarce able to distinguish it w hen presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—In... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...to us ; how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...to us ; how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate our understandings... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, to illuminate oar... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 558 pages
...modem states all round Kuropc, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, groping as it...to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings .'—... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...Europe, but find none of their constitution* 13 to our circumstances. In this situation of this assembly, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth,...to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings ?... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...modern states all round Europe, but find none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. "In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto... | |
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In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of... 
