| Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pagina’s
...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. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pagina’s
...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. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
| Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pagina’s
...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. It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pagina’s
...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. It was very like the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1504 pagina’s
...that month.* — AUTOBIOGRAPHY, i, 40. FORD ED., i. 55. (1821.) 2841. EXPERIENCE, Governmental. — Forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading. — To SAMUEL KERCHIVAL. vii, 15. FORD ED., x, 42. (M., 1816.) 2842. EXPERIMENT, Trying.— The precept... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 pagina’s
...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. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 1044 pagina’s
...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. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
| Maryland State Bar Association - 1907 - 350 pagina’s
...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. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading ; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pagina’s
...they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it and labored with it. 15. 40. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but lacked the experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century... | |
| ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pagina’s
...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. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
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