 | 1866 - 278 pages
...more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency, and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government... | |
 | United States. President - 1866 - 722 pages
...Washington, that "every step by which die people of the United States have advanced to tho character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency." Who will not join with me in the prayer, that the invisible hand which has led us through... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 446 pages
...of Washington in his inaugural address :—" Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of a providential agency." THE SITUATION. The only danger in England now is this,—that the " power "... | |
 | John Alexander Jameson - 1867 - 594 pages
...6, 1789, he said: " Every step by which they" (the United States) " have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency." 5 In his history of the American Revolution, published in 1789, and afterwards in his history... | |
 | 1983 - 782 pages
...more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government,... | |
 | George Washington - 1986 - 24 pages
...more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government,... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman - 1990 - 388 pages
...of man more than those of the United States. Every step by which we have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. . . . Nor did these religious sentiments remain merely the personal expression of the president.... | |
 | Robert N. Bellah - 1991 - 329 pages
...of man more than those of the United States. Every step by which we have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. . . . The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. President GEORGE WASHINGTON, first inaugural address, April 30, 1789.— The Writings of George... | |
 | G. Edward White - 1995 - 649 pages
...' ' [e]very step, by which ... the people of the United States . . . have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. ' '72 When his son Oliver Wendell Holmes later came to memorialize Abiel's contributions, however,... | |
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No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished... 
