 I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure that it is not the best. The opinions I have had of its errors I sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls...  Southern Quarterly Review - Page 202edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being gene* rally received, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they -were born ; and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received and thereby... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 570 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, "and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born ; and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received and thereby... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born ; and here they shall die. If every...our constituents, were to report the objections he Ijas had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born ; and here they shall die. If every...returning to our constituents, were to report the objection he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent its... | |
 | A citizen of Pittsburgh - Readers - 1818 - 276 pages
...sacrifice to the public good. I have never whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born ; and here they shall die. If every...were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally receiv«d, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...whispered a syllable of them abroad. Within these walls they were born, and here they shall die. If «very one of us in returning to our constituents were to...objections he has had to it, and endeavor to gain partizans in support of them, we might prevent its being generally received, and thereby lose aH the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1820 - 360 pages
...us, in returning to our constituents, were to report the objections he has had to it, and endeavour to gain partisans in support of them, we might prevent...effects and great advantages resulting naturally in our favour among foreign nations, as well as among ourselves, from our real or apparent unanimity. Much... | |
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