 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1876 - 394 páginas
...prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in the Assembly every morning before we proceed to business...this city be requested to officiate in that service." The speech which accompanied this motion will forever be conspicuous in our annals. He said : " Mr.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1876 - 216 páginas
...sustain it, — that "henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held, in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." " I have lived, sir (said he most nobly), a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1876 - 878 páginas
...and then moved that " henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The resolution was not adopted. On a memorandum of it, Franklin wrote, " The Convention, except three... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 páginas
...beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service." What a lesson to the legislators of other nations ! («) FORGETTING THE OFFENCE. — A person came... | |
 | Caleb Sprague Henry - 1877 - 318 páginas
...beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service." What a scene! What a picture it presents to our mind's eye. Franklin's motion, however, was evaded,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 660 páginas
...u That henceforth prayers, imploring the 71 III2 BOOK IV. assistance of Heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every...the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in this service." Upon a memorandum of this motion, Franklin wrote : " The convention, except three or... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1878 - 450 páginas
...beg leave to move, that henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service. " The motion was evaded by an adjournment. It was feared, according to Madison, •lest prayers for... | |
 | 1878 - 594 páginas
...beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The motion prevailed. These things certainly do not look as though the founders of the Republic thought... | |
 | 1878 - 1194 páginas
...beg leave to move that henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The motion prevailed. These things certainly do not look as though the founders of the Republic thought... | |
 | Edward Parsons - 1879 - 320 páginas
...therefore, beg leave to move, ' That henceforth prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessing upon our deliberations, be held in this assembly every...this city be requested to officiate in that service.' " TRAJAN AND THE WIDOW. Trajan, the lord of the civilized world, was setting out from his imperial... | |
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I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be... 
