Mr. President, The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks,... Pamphlets on Biography1901Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 510 trang
...the speech of Dr. Franklin, delivered in the Convention of 1787, we find the following words : ' Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four...our different sentiments on almost every question, 'Old Regime and Revolution, p. 190. several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks,... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 trang
...same purpose. SPEECH IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION ON MOTION FOR OPENING THE CONVENTION WITH PRAYER. MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made, after...our different sentiments on almost every question, 388 PRAYER IN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. [JET. Si. several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes,... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 trang
...request of the deputies from New York. Dr. FRANKLIN. Mr. President, the small progress we have maile after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual...of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, metliinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 trang
...have marie after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings will) each oilier — our different sentiments on almost every question,...of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, metliinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel... | |
| Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 trang
...and acrimonious debate, when Franklin introduced a motion for daily prayers, in the following words : "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks, close attendance and continued reasoning with each other; our different sentiments on almost every question, several of... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 trang
...The speech which accompanied this motion will forever be conspicuous in our annals. He said : " Mr. President ! The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks close attendence and continual reasonings with each other ; our different sentiments on almost every question,... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1877 - 982 trang
...here, introducing a motion that thereafter their deliberations should be opened by morning prayer: Mr. President: The small progress we have made, after...question, several of the last producing as many Noes aa Ayes, is, raetliinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We. indeed,... | |
| 1877 - 972 trang
...here, introducing a motion that thereafter their deliberations should be opened by morning prayer: Mr. President : The small progress we have made, after...continual reasonings with each other, our different sentimenta on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks,... | |
| Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 trang
...in the convention every morning, and in support of his motion thus addressed the president : " Mr. President, The small progress we have made after four or five weeks of close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, out different sentiments on almost every... | |
| John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 trang
...[The following address was delivered by Dr. Franklin in the Constitutional Convention of 1787.] 1. MB. PRESIDENT : The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continued reasonings with one another; our different sentiments on almost every question, several of... | |
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