 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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
...a great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS.—" Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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
...great man hath fallen this day in Israel.' PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENT, POPULAR RIGHTS. — " Some . men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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.-... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendmeut . I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country.... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness "ml oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train, wretchedness nml oppression. Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 694 pages
...against what has been called in the nomenclature of the dxj,fogyism. He says, in 1816 : " Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence,...ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more thim human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well ; I belonged to... | |
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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. 
