 | Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 248 pages
...would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? * u IN the execution ot such a plan, nothing is more... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 64 pages
...adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1837 - 622 pages
...richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential,... | |
 | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau - Constitutional law - 1834 - 148 pages
...adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected i the permanent felicity of a nation with virtue? The experiment at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature.— Alas! it is rendered impossible by its vices'? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
 | John Marshall - Presidents - 1836 - 500 pages
...would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ; can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices? " In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1837 - 620 pages
...richly repay any temporary advantages, which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential,... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations has been the victim. Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? " So, likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be, that Providence has J _ not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with...by every sentiment which / ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices ? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...richly repay any temporar}' advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it ? Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas ! is it rendered impossible by its vices? In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
 | L. Carroll Judson - 1839 - 364 pages
...would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that providence has not connected the permanent felicity...recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices ! In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential... | |
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Who can doubt that, in the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation... 
