 | Benjamin Franklin - 1905 - 396 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1906 - 764 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...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... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 286 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... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - 1987 - 1168 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... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - 1990 - 548 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... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 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...astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching as near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies. . . . Thus I consent, Sir,... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 trang
...inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, . . . their local interests. . . . From such an assembly can a perfect production be...system approaching so near to perfection as it does. ... I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections... | |
 | Various - 1994 - 676 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...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... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. - 1998 - 353 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...system approaching so near to perfection as it does . . . .21 The abolitionist Franklin of course did not believe that for African Americans the Constitution... | |
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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,... 
