 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,...  Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Page 42by Edward Everett - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | 664 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...that without bis concurring ¡till, we shall succeed in this political building no better tliaa the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little,...local 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1820 - 628 pages
...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,...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) - English literature - 1820 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...believe, without his concurring aid, we shall proceed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel : we shall be divided by our little...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, despair... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...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,... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 562 pages
...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...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, despair... | |
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