 | Tennessee Valley Authority - 1937 - 468 pages
...navigation possibilities of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God that we may have the wisdom to improve them.... | |
 | Tennessee Valley Authority - Erosion - 1938 - 74 pages
...42465°— 38 3 1 1 of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God that we may have the wisdom to improve them.... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1912 - 422 pages
...States, from maps and the information of others ; and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence, which has dealt her favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom enough to improve them. I... | |
 | Western Writers of America - History - 1985 - 332 pages
...navigation of these United States, from maps and the information of others, and could not but be struck by the immense extent and importance of it, and with the goodness of providence, which has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom... | |
 | James D. Dilts - Transportation - 1996 - 594 pages
...vast inland navigation of these United States, and could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it; and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we have wisdom enough to improve them ! I shall... | |
 | Donald J. Pisani - Nature - 2002 - 428 pages
...a letter to the Marquis de Chastellux, "and [I] could not but be struck with the immense diffusion and importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt her favours to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have the wisdom to make a good use of... | |
 | Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 417 pages
...of the vast inland navigation of these United States from maps and the information of others I aad could not but be struck with the immense extent and...importance of it, and with the goodness of that Providence whieh has dealt its favors to us with so profuse a hand ; would to God, we may have wisdom enough to... | |
 | Peter L. Bernstein - Business & Economics - 2005 - 472 pages
...the vast inland navigation of the United States, and could not but be struck by the immense diffusion and importance of it ... and with the goodness of that Providence which has dealt his favors to us with so profuse a hand. Would to God we may have wisdom to improve them. I shall not... | |
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Prompted by these actual observations, I could not help taking a more contemplative and extensive view of the vast inland navigation of these United States... 
