 | Thomas Jefferson - 1905 - 598 Seiten
...this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows...with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom... | |
 | 1935 - 888 Seiten
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 | Norbert Lafayette Savay - 1908 - 178 Seiten
...the sheep or oxen with 1 "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them the ark of the covenant too sacred to be touched....preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did to be beyond amendment. ... I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1911 - 416 Seiten
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1915 - 486 Seiten
...constitutions ought to respond to social needs and aspirations. "Some men," says Thomas Jefferson, "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. But I know that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 504 Seiten
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in the following words : " Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It... | |
 | Herman Finer - 1923 - 298 Seiten
........ 249 INDEX ....... 267 PART I SOME ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I ANCIENT LIGHTS Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present but without the experience... | |
 | 1926 - 548 Seiten
...stature ». Notes on Virginia, Query XVI f, I, 223. Thirty years later he wrote to Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | 1970 - 776 Seiten
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 | Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 342 Seiten
...into conflict with his cousin. Jefferson wrote thus of blind worship of established institutions : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they Marshall and Jefferson 81 did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored... | |
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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. 
