 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...Sacred Writings, that " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1818 - 558 pages
...Sacred Writings, that " except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.'' 1 firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his...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,... | |
 | 664 pages
...writings, that, " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build • it." I firmly believe this ; and I also believe, that without his...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
...sacred writings, that, " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it" I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his...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
...believe, 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...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
...sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his...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
...sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his...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..;... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...been given by one of his biographers, who was in habits of familiar intercourse with him ; and the concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political...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... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 742 pages
...sacred writings, that ' except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his...this political building no better than the builders ot Babel : we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded,... | |
 | Religion - 1831 - 416 pages
...the sacred writings, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this ; and I also believe that without his...this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest. "I therefore beg leave to move,... | |
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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... 
