 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 Seiten
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 Seiten
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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. It was very like the present,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...my countrymen, that ' verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS.—" Some men look at constitutions...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 Seiten
...my countrymen, that ' verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 Seiten
...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,...that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with ii. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 Seiten
...•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 Seiten
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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.... | |
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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. 
