 | 1839 - 630 pages
...few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising sun from a setting sun. " ' I have,' said he, ' often...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.*"' It is not our intention, as already mentioned, to enter at present into an... | |
 | 1839 - 622 pages
...few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising sun from a setting sun. " ' I have,' said he, ' often...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.' " It is not our intention, as already mentioned, to enter at present into an... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that sun behind the President, without being able to tell whether...I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.' " — Democratic Review, March, 1839. Article on the Madison papers. 'T WAS... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 702 pages
...by an adjournment sine die. m Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor FRANKLIN, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun. APPENDIX TO THE DEBATES IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION. APPENDIX TO THE DEBATES IN... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1845 - 672 pages
...by an adjournment tine die.369 Whilst the last members were signing, Dr. FRANKLIN, looking towards the president's chair, at the back of which a rising...I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun." 48 ' i • j LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION.... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pages
...him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. 1 have, said he, often and often in the course of the...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Thus closed the labors of the most important and memorable assembly of lawmakers,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1858 - 460 pages
...names. Whilst the last members were signing, DR. FRANKT.IN, looking towards the president's chair, on the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted,...length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." The following are the names of delegates who were absent. Those whose names... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pages
...vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that b*ehind the President, without beino7 О able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.' " г The venerable Nestor of three generations ; born in the old Puritan time,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 pages
...by an adjournment tine die.269 Whilst the last members were signing, Dr. FRANKLIN, looking towards the president's chair, at the back of which a rising...I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun." 48 LETTEES WRITTEN AFTER THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION. TO GENERAL... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 pages
...fears as to its issue, looked at that behind * "Life and Works of Franklin," by .lured Sparks, I., 519 the president, without being able to tell whether...I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising and not a setting sun.' "* The Convention adjourned on the 17th of September. Perhaps, I may mention,... | |
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Whilst the last members were signing, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the President's chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art... 
