 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.  The Best Letters of Thomas Jefferson - Seite 118von Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 300 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 Seiten
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bettum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 Seiten
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the helium omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 Seiten
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellitm omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 Seiten
...' verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS.—" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: 1 belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 Seiten
...verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendments I knew that age well: I belonged to it, nnd labored with it. It deserved well of its country.-... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 Seiten
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. "Some men, he says, look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 Seiten
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. " Some men," he says, " look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. 1 belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - 1849 - 1140 Seiten
...•of all the executive offices of the county." "Some men look at constitutions with saneti' monious reverence, and deem them, like the ark 'of the covenant,...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 amendment. I know... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 Seiten
...hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. Our land-holders, tbo, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendmeut . I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
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