| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 758 Seiten
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the helium omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to ba beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well... | |
| American Historical Association - 1897 - 456 Seiten
...out of reparti 1'nr the memory of the "fathers," "look at the Constitutions, " as Jeflerson said, 14 with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Two examples will suffice: Speech of Mr. Purviance of North Carolina, December 7, 1803; Annals, pp.... | |
| American Historical Association - 1897 - 458 Seiten
...out of regard for tho memory of the "fathers," ''look at the Constitutions, " as Jefferson said, " with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." Two examples will suffice: Speech of Mr. I'urviance of North Carolina, December 7, 1803 ; Annals, pp.... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1898 - 552 Seiten
...the executive offices of the county.* Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reference, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age more wisdom than human and suppose what they did to be beyond improvement.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1899 - 516 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... | |
| 1902 - 776 Seiten
...above 1 Works, X (1816), 32 ff. Cf. Locke, Two Treatises of Government. human criticism. He did not "look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched."1 Government appeared to him as an institution existing for the good of the governed ; and... | |
| Charles Edward Merriam - 1903 - 392 Seiten
...believe in government as something so sacred in nature as to be above human criticism. He did not " look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched." 1 Government appeared to him as an institution existing for the governed ; and if it failed to serve... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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