 Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...  The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin - Pagina 415door Benjamin Franklin - 1806Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Francis Moran - 1904 - 580 pagina’s
...their local interests, and their selfish views. ... It therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near to perfection...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1905 - 318 pagina’s
...with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 pagina’s
...with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 746 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - 1906 - 332 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinions, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are awaiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 1056 pagina’s
...their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perject production !>. expected ? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find...it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confident to hear, that our councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our... | |
 | Leonard Brown - 1908 - 630 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, elr, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - 1911 - 284 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1914 - 440 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose... | |
 | David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 632 pagina’s
...with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose... | |
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