 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - 1885 - 832 trang
...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...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. It therefore astonishes me to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does ; and I think... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893
...Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, yon inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their...errors of opinion, their local interests and their aolfisjh views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes... | |
 | 1894 - 586 trang
...conciliation board — -to obtain the advantage of their joint wisdom yon inevitably assemble with these men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. Such an assembly, might be thought, could scarcely be expected to take a calm, judicial view of the... | |
 | 1897 - 976 trang
...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...councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 trang
...that is always in the right." " It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching to near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will...astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to bear that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 trang
...of the Convention, that he is astonished to find the constitution so near perfection as it is — " and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1899 - 462 trang
...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...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - 1900 - 936 trang
...Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joiot wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their...councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of... | |
 | James Madison - 1787 - 578 trang
...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...councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of... | |
 | 1900 - 460 trang
...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...enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
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I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better 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 pas,sions,... 
