 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is •worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | 1818
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byeword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | ...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will...become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages." He then moved, that prayers should be performed in that assembly every morning before they proceeded... | |
 | 1819
...interests; our projects will be confounded; aud we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may...unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by Imniiiii v. ¡Mlnii), and leave it to chance, wtu, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, •... | |
 | 1821
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bv-word down to future ases." He Edible Birds' Nats. ANOTHF.R. IN the middle of the last century, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 340 páginas
...proceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will...we ourselves shall become a • • •< reproach none, the Americans will find, and at no very remote time, that the want of an adequate provision for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820
...in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our litde, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a I..; .. . reproach none, the Americans will find, and at no very remote time, that the want of an adequate... | |
 | 1821
...proceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will...war, and conquest. I therefore beg leave to move, " That henceforth, prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations,... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 374 páginas
...succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by onr little partial local interests, our projects will...confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a bye-word down to future ages ; and, what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
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I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and... 
