 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 pagina’s
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bettum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pagina’s
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the helium omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1830 - 550 pagina’s
...this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.^ I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 pagina’s
...' 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 amendment. I knew that age well: 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pagina’s
...necessarily limited, but possess great interest and value. THE CONSTITUTION — POPULAR RIGHTS. — ' Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pagina’s
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. "Some men, he says, look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 pagina’s
...the majority are dead in every nineteen years. ' "Some men look at constitutions with sactimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant,...than human, and suppose what they did, to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with ii. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 pagina’s
...•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 - 676 pagina’s
...hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. Our land-holders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 pagina’s
...fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness "ml oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
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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.... 
