 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 Seiten
...instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, speech in the Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 17,... | |
 | Christian Liberty Press, Geoffrey Parsons - 2007 - 196 Seiten
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 Seiten
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 Seiten
...on September 1 7th, "I have experienced many instances of being obliged ... to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment." The point of this comment is to encourage his divided colleagues to settle for an "apparent unanimity"... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - 1998 - 788 Seiten
...It fell to Benjamin Franklin and James Madison to put the work of the convention into perspective. "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment," said the octogenarian Franklin. Not only was he astonished that a constitution that was the product... | |
 | Richard J. Ellis - 1999 - 340 Seiten
...many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. ... I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to he otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 Seiten
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise" (W9:607). In addition, it is also important to remember that at least part of his important political... | |
 | Robert Dawidoff - 2000 - 274 Seiten
...presents his thinking: "I have experienced many instances of being obliged to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more I am apt to doubt my own judgement of others."14 Jefferson would not have failed to take Franklin's... | |
 | Paul Downes - 2002 - 255 Seiten
...apparent unanimity. (Writings, 114o)*'1 The speech is eminently reasonable and explicitly self-deprecating ("the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own judgement and to pay more respect to the judgement of others"-17). What stands out, from a stylistic... | |
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older... 
