| Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 Seiten
...before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapabUe of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention...assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 892 Seiten
...change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can...assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, 'their errors... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...despotism, aa other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether any othei convention we can obtain, may be able to make a bettei constitution : for when you assemble a... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...... In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. ... I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. . . . The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered... | |
| Joseph Alden - 1869 - 308 Seiten
...important subjects." " I doubt whether any other coiv vention we can obtain may be able to make a bettef constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
| Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - 1871 - 664 Seiten
...shall become so corrupted aa to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. 2. I donbt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may...assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those mon all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
| Charles Lanman - 1872 - 404 Seiten
...at the strong sides of the republic. Now we shall investigate some of the causes of its weakness. " When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1873 - 266 Seiten
...despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted, as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other....constitution. For when you assemble a number of men, to have tne advantage of their joint wisdom, you assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passion?,... | |
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