 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 halaman
...must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, nnd the glory of the nation. This example reads to us...amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 halaman
...' verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS.—" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 halaman
...verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendments I knew that age well: I belonged to it, nnd labored with it. It deserved well of its country.-... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 halaman
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. "Some men, he says, look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...amendment. I knew that age well. I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 halaman
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. " Some men," he says, " look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. 1 belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 halaman
...•of all the executive offices of the county." "Some men look at constitutions with saneti' monious reverence, and deem them, like the ark 'of the covenant,...sacred to be touched. They ' ascribe to the men of the preceeding age a wis' dom more than human, and suppose what they 'did, to be beyond amendment. I know... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 halaman
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendmeut . I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | 1859 - 694 halaman
...relentless war against what has been called in the nomenclature of the dxj,fogyism. He says, in 1816 : " Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more thim human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well ; I belonged to... | |
 | 1859 - 690 halaman
...relentless war against what has been called in the nomenclature of the day, fogyism. He says, in 1816 : " Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too saered to be touched. They aseribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more thun human, and suppose... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 halaman
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness •uid oppression. Su ue men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to thc men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. 
