 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1911 - 680 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...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 Monday MADISON... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 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. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 690 pages
...waiting 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 Monday MADISON September 17 purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 440 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...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1949 - 664 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with confidence to hear that councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - Aeronautics, Military - 1949 - 658 pages
...expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with confidence to hear that councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1942 - 694 pages
...selfish views. It therefore astonished me 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. — Benjamin Franklin (1787). If seditious... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 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...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... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 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...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... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 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...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... | |
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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... 
