 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1954 - 98 trang
...progress we have made after 4 or 5 weeks of close attendance and continual reasoning with each other is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. How has it happened, sir, tliat we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 trang
...progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other—our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 trang
...we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection...want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1999 - 836 trang
...President The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other— our different sentiments on almost...question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. "We indeed seem... | |
 | Robert Dawidoff - 2000 - 274 trang
...prayers in the Constitutional Convention suggests another of the many shadings of Richard's chestnut. "We indeed seem to feel our own want of political...since we have been running all about in Search of it."13 Franklin lightly mocked the ransacking of ancient constitutions and suggested a prayer for guidance.... | |
 | Douglass Adair - 2000 - 230 trang
...916-917. 4. Federalist, XIV. 5. One can detect a trace of sarcasm in Franklin's remark on this point. "We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined... | |
 | Michael Novak, William Brailsford, Cornelis Heesters - 2000 - 456 trang
...on June 28, 1787, Franklin suggested the depths of the Framers' struggle to concur on a new order: We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 2003 - 808 trang
...The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other — our different sentiments on almost...want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone ba'ck to ancient history for models of government, and examined... | |
 | John W. Lawrence - 132 trang
...the small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost...the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1965 - 534 trang
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is inethinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human...want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined... | |
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The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy... 
