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" It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel... "
The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary: Of the Late Benjamin Franklin - Seite 134
von Benjamin Franklin - 1811 - 182 Seiten
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Selections from American Orations: An Historical Reader for Schools

Horace Leslie Brittain - 1911 - 284 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me,...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of...
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Readings in the History of the American Nation

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - 1914 - 440 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me,...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose...
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Readings in American History

David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 632 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me,...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose...
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Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States, Band 4

Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 800 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, an-d their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me,...councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel ; •Sparks. Life of Franklin, p. 518; Hunt, Madison's Journal, vol. ii., pp. 389-391. FRANKLIN'S...
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 Seiten
...dispute with her sister, said: "But I meet with nobody but myself that is always in the right." It ... astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of...
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Readings in American History

David Saville Muzzey - 1915 - 634 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me,...it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with conf1dence to hear U)»t our^ councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel ; and that...
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American Patriots and Statesmen, from Washington to Lincoln: Patriotism of ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 382 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me,...who are waiting with confidence to hear, that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of...
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Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 Seiten
...is always in the right"; and reminding the members of their enemies who were confidently expecting "to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of...
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Bugle Calls of Liberty: Our National Reader of Patriotism

1917 - 200 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me,...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point-of...
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The League Bulletin, Ausgaben 120-168

1919 - 250 Seiten
...errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me,...councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of...
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