 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...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, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understandings?... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...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 Lights, to illuminate our understandings... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...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 Lights to illuminate our understandings ?—... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...of this assembly, 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 Lights to illuminate our understandings ?... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...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 once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Light to illuminate our understandings? —... | |
 | Jasper Adams - Anglican Communion - 1833 - 90 pages
...this assembly, gropingas it were in the dark, to find political truth, and scaice 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 Lights to illuminate our understandings.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - United States - 1833 - 600 pages
...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 Lights to illuminate our understandings ?... | |
 | Solomon Southwick - Apologetics - 1834 - 340 pages
...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 Lights to illuminate our understandings.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 pages
...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 Lights to illuminate our understandings?... | |
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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 lights... 
