 In this situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of...  The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland - 第 119 頁Grover Cleveland 著 - 1892 - 571 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 頁
...Convention had made as "a melancholy proof of the imperfection of Human Understanding," and continued: In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find the political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir,... | |
 | Chris Rodda - 2006 - 534 頁
...Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it...to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?... | |
 | Daniel Jappah - 2007 - 428 頁
...Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it...to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding? In... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 頁
...Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances. ponsibility more diffused. They will not have the...pretensions will not so readily engage in them, because th hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?... | |
 | Joseph A. Murray - 2007 - 266 頁
...accommodation. Dr. Franklin arose and, in an attempt to set the Convention back on a proper course, said, In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it...to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?... | |
 | Randall Norman Desoto - 2007 - 266 頁
...all the answers and could impart wisdom to their hearts and minds concerning the matters before them, "In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it...to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings?... | |
 | Michael Warren - 2007 - 235 頁
...Benjamin Franklin remarked during the early meetings of the Convention that the delegates had been "groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us." Yet Madison was able to report at the end of the Convention that when the last delegates were signing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2007 - 513 頁
...round Europe, but found none of their constitutions suitable to our circumstances. In this situation, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth,...scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, I asked the delegates how it happened that we had not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the... | |
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