 | Commonwealth Club of California - 1919 - 720 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... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1919 - 410 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1919 - 250 Seiten
...selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonished me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1973 - 568 Seiten
...Benjamin Franklin remarked near the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia, "It * * * astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does * * *." One hundred and seventy-eight years later the relevance of that Constitution of 1789 to our... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - 1224 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,...system approaching so near to perfection as it does. . . . Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I am not sure that it is not the best." Mr.... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 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... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 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... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 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, Sir, to find this system approaching as near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies. . . . Thus I consent, Sir,... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 Seiten
...prejudices, their passions, . . . their local interests. . . . From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me,...system approaching so near to perfection as it does. ... I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections... | |
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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... 
