 | James D. Dilts - Transportation - 1996 - 594 pages
...goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we have wisdom enough to improve them ! I shall not rest...the Western country, and traversed those lines (or great part of them) which have given bounds to a new empire.4 The following year, Washington, who owned... | |
 | Evan Cornog - History - 1998 - 241 pages
...Marquis of Chastellux that he was struck by "the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom enough to improve them." In fact, Washington's interest in revising the Articles of Confederation... | |
 | Reginald Byron - Social Science - 1999 - 330 pages
...importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt its favours to us with such profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or a great part of them, which... | |
 | Donald J. Pisani - Nature - 2002 - 428 pages
...diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt her favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom to make a good use of them." Nearly a century and a half after Washington's journey, Herbert... | |
 | David E. Nye - History - 2004 - 388 pages
...cited George Washington, whose travels in upstate New York had convinced him of "the goodness ofthat Providence which has dealt his favors to us with so...to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them! "" The argument that the landscape contained latent within it the rudiments of a grand design, which... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of the United States, and could not but be struck by the immense diffusion and importance of it ... and...so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom to improve them. I shall not rest contented until I have explored the western country, and traversed... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 604 pages
...immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God...enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Economics - 1869 - 400 pages
...struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence who has dealt His favors to us with so profuse a hand....to God we may have wisdom enough to IMPROVE them." Washington, it is clear, was not a Free-Trader. He did not believe, with Dr. Ray, that the sole legitimate... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Travel - 1841 - 640 pages
...that Providence who has dealt his favours with so profuse a hand. Would to God that we may have wisdom to improve them ! I shall not rest contented until...the Western country, and traversed those lines (or great part of them) which have given bounds to a new empire.' " After returning from a journey westward... | |
 | United States - 1890 - 1014 pages
...struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence who has dealt his favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enongh to improve them ! I shall not rest contented until I have ' explored the western country, and... | |
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Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I shall not rest contented, till I have explored the western country, and traversed those lines, or great part of them, which have given bounds to a new empire. 
