| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...other convention we can obtain may be able to make H better constitution : for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint... | |
| Massachusetts. Convention - 1856 - 470 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their... | |
| John Scott - 1860 - 278 Seiten
...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.—ADVANCEMENT OP LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you invariably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their... | |
| John Scott - 1860 - 282 Seiten
...admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit. — ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you invariably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their crroci of opinion, their... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 Seiten
...before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapabUe of any other. I doubt, too, whether any other convention...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1862 - 892 Seiten
...change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can...men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, 'their errors of opinion,... | |
| Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 Seiten
...forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other. I doubt, too, whether...men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 Seiten
...of any other. I doubt, too, whether any othei convention we can obtain, may be able to make a bettei constitution : for when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...... In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. ... I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution. . . . The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered... | |
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