 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 pages
...expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our 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... | |
 | United States - 1904 - 584 pages
...therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who...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... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 548 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our 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 - 1905 - 396 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our 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... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Constitutional history - 1905 - 318 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our 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... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 286 pages
...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 separation,...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - Constitutional history - 1906 - 332 pages
...approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are awaiting with confidence to hear that our 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1906 - 1056 pages
...expected ? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confident to hear, that our councils are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our... | |
 | Leonard Brown - Conduct of life - 1908 - 630 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, elr, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who...hear that our councils are confounded, like those of tha builders of liabel; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter... | |
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... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection... 
