| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us...amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bettum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellitm omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...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 like the present,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows...amendment.^ I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...' verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS.—" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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 like the present,... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...verily a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...than human, 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.-... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...necessarily limited, but possess great interest and value. THE CONSTITUTION — POPULAR RIGHTS. — ' Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| George Tucker - 1837 - 608 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,...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well. 1 belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present,... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...the majority are dead in every nineteen years. ' "Some men look at constitutions with sactimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant,...amendment. I knew that age well: I belonged to it, and labored with ii. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| Kentucky. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1849 - 1140 pages
...•of all the executive offices of the county." "Some men look at constitutions with saneti' monious reverence, and deem them, like the ark 'of the covenant,...sacred to be touched. They ' ascribe to the men of the preceeding age a wis' dom more than human, and suppose what they 'did, to be beyond amendment. I know... | |
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