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. Master Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson - Page 117by Thomas Jefferson - 1907 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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 of the present;... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and, in its train, wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and laboured 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
...frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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,... | |
| 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...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 of the present... | |
| 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,...amendment. I knew that age well. I belonged to it, and laboured 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,...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 of the... | |
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