 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by -word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may...leave to move, "That henceforth prayers, imploring the assist nee of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 556 pages
...no better than the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by -word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be 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,... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...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, •... | |
 | 664 pages
...better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be 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... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by onr little partial local interests, our projects will be 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,... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...better than the builders ot Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. " I therefore beg leave to... | |
 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. "I therefore beg leave to move,... | |
 | Jasper Adams - Anglican Communion - 1833 - 90 pages
...better than the builders of Babel : we «hall be divided by our little partial local interests: our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall...despair of establishing government by human wisdom, aiid leave it to chance, war, and conquest. I, therefore, beg leave to move, that henceforth prayers,... | |
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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,... 
