 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1907 - 348 pagina’s
...years after his retirement from the Presidency, writing from Monticello to one of his friends, hesaid : "Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...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, but without the experience... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 458 pagina’s
...out of regard for tho memory of the "fathers," ''look at the Constitutions, " as Jefferson said, " with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Two examples will suffice: Speech of Mr. I'urviance of North Carolina, December 7, 1803 ; Annals, pp.... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1897 - 456 pagina’s
...out of reparti 1'nr the memory of the "fathers," "look at the Constitutions, " as Jeflerson said, 14 with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Two examples will suffice: Speech of Mr. Purviance of North Carolina, December 7, 1803; Annals, pp.... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 552 pagina’s
...the executive offices of the county.* Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reference, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age more wisdom than human and suppose what they did to be beyond improvement.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 pagina’s
...misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 500 pagina’s
...oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe...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, but without the experience... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pagina’s
...able to take care of it and of themselves. (To John Adams, 1813. C. VI., 227.) THE CONSTITUTION. — Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1900 - 494 pagina’s
...able to take care of it and of themselves. (To John Adams, 1813. C. VI., 227.) THE CONSTITUTION. — Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 1082 pagina’s
...personal injuries. — To A. CORAY. vii, 323. (M.. 1823.) 1733. CONSTITUTIONS (American), Revision of. — Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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, but without the experience... | |
 | 1902 - 776 pagina’s
...above 1 Works, X (1816), 32 ff. Cf. Locke, Two Treatises of Government. human criticism. He did not "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."1 Government appeared to him as an institution existing for the good of the governed ; and... | |
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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.... 
