 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 846 pages
...setting sun. I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun. Franklin's assumed text in this anecdote, the artist's painting, is hopelessly ambiguous without a... | |
 | Bernard De Voto, Bernard Augustine De Voto - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 694 pages
...setting sun. I have, said he, often and often in the course of this session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." 2 Thirteen days later, September 30 1787, a ship of 212 tons burden that had lately been built in Plymouth's... | |
 | Mary A. Giunta, J. Dane Hartgrove - History - 1998 - 348 pages
...setting sun. I have, said he, often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind...know that it is a rising and not a setting sun."* Franklin, wise in so many ways, in these words expressed his belief in the future of the United States.... | |
 | Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham, Dennis Owen Flynn - Business & Economics - 1998 - 274 pages
...painted. He observed, "I have often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind...to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Today's Americans might well wonder, as Dr Franklin did, if their prospects are still rising to the... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...have, said he, often . . . in the . . . vicissitudes of my hopes and fears . . . looked at that [sun] behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; Hut now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.21"'1 May... | |
 | John C. Bogle - Business & Economics - 1999 - 500 pages
..."I have in the course of the Session, and the vicissitude of my hopes and fears, looked at that sun without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Similarly, I would express... | |
 | Jeffrey F. Meyer - Religion - 2001 - 382 pages
...on the back of Washington's chair: "I have often, in the course of the session, looked at that sun behind the President, without being able to tell whether...happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun."31 The words may be a clue to why the Constitution assumes scriptural status for Americans. Simply... | |
 | Janet Benge, Geoff Benge - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 228 pages
...Washington has sat. I wondered if it represented a rising or a setting sun. Now I believe I know the answer. I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Chapter 18 Mr. President Two weeks after the close of the Constitutional Convention, George Washington... | |
 | Joy Hakim - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 238 pages
...almost fainted from the At the Convention's end, Ben Franklin, looking at the chair ornament, said, "I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." When Patrick Henry was asked why he stayed home, instead of helping to make a good constitution, he... | |
 | Carol Berkin - History - 2002 - 324 pages
...the back of Washington's chair was rising or setting. "Now at length," he said with obvious relief, "I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun." With that, the convention dissolved itself by an adjournment sine die. . . . That evening the delegates... | |
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often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that... 
