 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
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - 800 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...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 SPEECH... | |
 | Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 Seiten
...It ... 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 counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | 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...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats." The Constitution was unanimously adopted September 17, 1787. Franklin died... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1916 - 382 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 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... | |
 | 1917 - 200 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 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... | |
 | 1919 - 252 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... | |
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