 | 1818 - 594 pages
...it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byeword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is •worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | 664 pages
...it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages." He then moved, that prayers should be performed in that assembly every morning before they proceeded... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...it" I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bv-word down to future ases." He Edible Birds' Nats. ANOTHF.R. IN the middle of the last century, when... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...believe, that without bis concurring ¡till, we shall succeed in this political building no better tliaa the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our...local interests; our projects will be confounded; aud we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 pages
...build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, without his concurring aid, we shall proceed in this political building no better than the builders...ages ; and what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 628 pages
...it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders...we ourselves shall become a • • •< reproach none, the Americans will find, and at no very remote time, that the want of an adequate provision for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - 616 pages
...it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our litde, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a I..;... | |
 | 1821 - 356 pages
...build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, without his concurring aid, we shall proceed in this political building no better than the builders...ages ; and what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance,... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...biographers, who was in habits of familiar intercourse with him ; and the concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by onr little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become... | |
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I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests ; our projects will be confounded,... 
