 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bettum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...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.- It was...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...and suppose what 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...they would say themselves. were they to rise from ihedead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book reading : and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that 'governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...without perience of the present; and forty years of ex3e in government is worth a century of book readnd this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. We had not yet penetrated to the mother principle, that ' governments are republican only in proportion... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...because the prepossessions of age are generally in favour of times that are past. "Some men, he says, look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading; this they would say of themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 608 pages
...a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. 1 belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading ; this they would say of themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...what they did, to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with ii. It deserved well of its country. It was very like...of experience in government, is worth a century of book-leading: and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...suppose what they 'did, to be beyond amendment. I know that 'age well. I Belonged to it, and labored with it. ' It deserved well of its country. It was...without the experience of ' the present; and forty years experience in gov' ernment is worth a century of book reading, ' and this they would say themselves,... | |
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... 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.... 
