 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 Seiten
...its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...its train, wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendments... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 Seiten
...majority are dead in every nineteen years. ' "Some men look at constitutions with sactimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age, a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did, to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 Seiten
...the executive offices of the county." "Some men look at constitutions with saneti' monious reverence, and deem them, like the ark 'of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ' ascribe to the men of the preceeding age a wis' dom more than human, and suppose what they 'did, to be beyond... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 Seiten
...its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendmeut... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 Seiten
...its train, wretchedness "ml oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | 1859 - 694 Seiten
...the dxj,fogyism. He says, in 1816 : " Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more thim human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 Seiten
...train, wretchedness •uid oppression. Su ue men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to thc men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... | |
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.... 
