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 Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral ... - Seite 317von Benjamin Franklin - 1837 - 328 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1919 - 250 Seiten
...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...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because... | |
| Commonwealth Club of California - 1919 - 720 Seiten
...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...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because... | |
| Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1919 - 204 Seiten
...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...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because... | |
| James Baldwin - 1919 - 250 Seiten
...therefore astonished 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 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 Armed Services - 1949 - 664 Seiten
...therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with confidence to hear that councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1949 - 658 Seiten
...therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with confidence to hear that councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
| United States. Office of Education - 1942 - 694 Seiten
...It therefore astonished me 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 counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel. — Benjamin Franklin (1787). If seditious... | |
| Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 Seiten
...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...only to meet hereafter for the Purpose of cutting one another's Throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because... | |
| Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 Seiten
...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...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because... | |
| Thomas Gustafson - 1992 - 500 Seiten
...finished product of their labors "will astonish our enemies, who are waiting to hear with confidence that our councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel" (NFC, 653-4). i9 Joel Barlow, in the conclusion of his epic The Vision of Columbus, published the year... | |
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