...which Dayton so graphically records, the following solemn and beautiful appeal to their better natures: "The small progress we have made after four or five...attendance and continual reasonings with each other — opr different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as...

...pursue, Benjamin Franklin said to George Washington, the Chairman of the Constitutional Convention : MR. PRESIDENT: — The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attention and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question,...

...M. Harlan, Late Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Generally so Considered MR. PRESIDENT: The small progress we have made after four...melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human misunderstanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running...

...and consumate in fact, arose, and addressing George Washington in the chair, spoke as follows: 'Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attention and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question,...

...1787, is somewhat interesting. The motion as reported by Mr. Madison was as follows: "Dr. Franklin. Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four...methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the .iiimau understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been...

...Convention, Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, said: The small progress we have made after 4 or 5 weeks close and continual reasonings with each other — our different...of the imperfection of the human understanding. We seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We...

...close and continual re; ings with each other — our different sentiments on almost every question, se of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy prc the imperfection of the human understanding. We seem to feel our own want of political wisdom,...

...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...

...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...

...Florida, December 16, 1971.— Gerald R. Ford, Selected Speeches, ed. Michael V. Doyle, p. 170 (1973). 716 The small progress we have made after four or five...attendance and continual reasonings with each other ... is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem...