| Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...powerful friend ?—or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance ?—I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincihg proofs... | |
| English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...our favour. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity- And...powerful friend ?— or do we imagine we no longer heed its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...powerful friend.'— or do we imagine we no longer n««d its ansistancft— I hnvs lired, sir, a long- time; and the longer I live, (he mare convincing... | |
| 1819 - 896 pages
...our favour. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend 1 Or do we imagine we no longer need his assistance 1 I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...applying to the Father of lights lo illuminate their understandings?—" I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD govtrns in the affairs ofmeii. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...favour : to that kind of Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...have we now forgotten that powerful friend ? or do we no longer need his assistance ? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...favour : to that kind of Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...have we now forgotten that powerful friend ? or do we no longer need his assistance ? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I lire, the more convincing... | |
| John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...favour. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace, on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...powerful Friend ? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance ? I have lived a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend ?— or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance.— I have lived, sir, a long time ; and...more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God govern* in the affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...our favor. To that kind Providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And...powerful friend ?~-or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance. — I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
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