 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...need its assistance ?—I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincihg proofs I see of this truth, That GOD governs in the affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...powerful Friend 1 Or do we imagine we no longer need his assistance 1 I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men ! And if a »parrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can... | |
 | 664 pages
...the Father of lights to illuminate their understandings? " I have lived. Sir, (said he) a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...forgotten that powerful friend ? or do we no longer need his assistance ? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth ; that God governs in the affairs of men : and if a sparrow cannot fall without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his... | |
 | 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
...Father of lights lo illuminate their understandings?—" I have lived, Sir, (said he) a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD govtrns in the affairs ofmeii. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...friend ? or do we no longer need his assistance ? I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I lire, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth ; that God governs in the affairs of men : and if a sparrow cannot fall without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...that powerful Friend ? or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance ? I have lived a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men : and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 558 pages
...friend ?— or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance.— I have lived, sir, a long time : and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs...this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men .' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...powerful friend ?~-or do we imagine we no longer need its assistance. — I have lived, sir, a long time ; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in tJie affairs of men ! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable... | |
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I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men. 
