 | Thomas Jefferson - 1903 - 550 pagina’s
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which Some philosophers observing...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... | |
 | Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 pagina’s
...believe in government as something so sacred in nature as to be above human criticism. He did not " look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 1 Government appeared to him as an institution existing for the governed ; and if it failed to serve... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 pagina’s
...misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellunt 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... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1907 - 350 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 246 pagina’s
...amendment to the Constitution, which should extend their power to these objects. But nothing is yet done. SOME men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
 | Norbert Lafayette Savay - 1908 - 178 pagina’s
...the sheep or oxen with 1 "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them the ark of the covenant too sacred to be touched....preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did to be beyond amendment. ... I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1911 - 416 pagina’s
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1915 - 486 pagina’s
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pagina’s
...proceed. "Some men," wrote Jefferson, 1 several years after his final retirement from public life, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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... | |
 | Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1920 - 1204 pagina’s
...uttered as to the propriety of amending the Federal Constitution, when, among other things, he said : "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... | |
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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.... 
