 | Washington Irving - 2005 - 417 sidor
...benevolence. — Who can doubt that to the course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richiy repay any temporary advantages which might be lost...be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felieity of a Nation with its virtue ? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment... | |
 | Michael Farris - 2005 - 228 sidor
...acknowledged powers and authority. 27 Smyth gave evidence of the veracity of Washington's now-famous query, "Can it be ... that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?" 28 Unity. Providence. Virtue. Liberty. Patriotism. These were the themes that dominated both the textbooks... | |
 | John C. Shields - 2004 - 482 sidor
...American adventure in freedom as an experiment, Washington here concludes the "Lesson" by inquiring, "Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?" (276). Given the findings of this chapter, we can safely assume that, by "virtue," Washington has in... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2009 - 304 sidor
...give mankind the too novel example of a People always guided by exalted justice and benevolence.... Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?" 3 These comments suggest that Washington envisioned a day in which a larger, more powerful United States,... | |
 | David Rothkopf - 2005 - 588 sidor
...to give mankind the too novel example of a People always guided by exalted justice and benevolence Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"3 These comments suggest that Washington envisioned a day in which a larger, more powerful... | |
 | Wardell Lindsay - 2005 - 8 sidor
...and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it... | |
 | J. Michael Waller - 2007 - 524 sidor
...course of time and things, the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages that might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it...nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? 209 In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies... | |
 | Michael Novak, Jana Novak - 2007 - 321 sidor
...course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages wch. might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it...Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices? 49 APPENDIX 2 Washington's Names for Providence For me, it is enough to have seen the divine Arm visibly... | |
 | Matthew S. Holland - 2007 - 340 sidor
...as the "mere Politician."13 Reiterating the basic point later in the speech, he asks rhetorically, "Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?"14 Here in the Farewell Address, Washington acknowledges that a full "volume could not trace... | |
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It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things... 
