 Lords, can I forget his powerful observations, when, in his place in Parliament, he stated his conviction of the absolute impossibility of providing for all the variety of human events, by any previous speculative plans : For, said he, I think, that if...  The Comparison: In which Mock Reform, and Constitutional Reform, are ... - Page 82by John Cartwright - 1810 - 106 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Earl Charles Grey Grey - Great Britain - 1810 - 100 pages
...providing for all the Tariety of human events, by any previous speculative plans: For, said he, I think, that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous men that ever adorned and improved human Jife, were collected together and seated round a table to devise a priori, a constitution for a state,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 798 pages
...said he, I think, that if a number of the wirest, ablest, and most virtuous men thnt ever adorrted and improved human life, were collected together and seated round a table to devise d priori, a constitution fora state, it is my persuasion, that notwithstanding all their ability and... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1821 - 344 pages
...providing for all the variety of human events, by any previous speculative plans : For, said he, I think, that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...to devise, a priori, a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion, that notwithstanding all their ability and virtue, they would not succeed in adapting... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1823 - 530 pages
...providing for all the va-riety of human events, by any previous speculative plans : For, said he, I think, that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...collected together, and seated round a table to devise, d priori, a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion, that notwithstanding all their ability and... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1832 - 572 pages
...for all ' the variety of human events, by any pre' vious speculative plans : for, said he, I ' think that if a number of the wisest, ' ablest, and most...collected together and seated round a ' table to devise it priori a Constitution, for ' a State, it is my persuasion, that not' withstanding all theii abihty... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...providing for all the variety of human events by any previous speculative plans ; for, said he, I think that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...to devise a priori a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion that, notwithstanding all their ability and virtue, they would not succeed in adapting... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 610 pages
...providing for all the variety of human events by any previous speculative plans ; for, said he, I think that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...to devise a priori a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion Ihat, notwithstanding all their ability and virtue, they would not suoceed in adapting... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - Ecclesiastical law - 1857 - 712 pages
...providing for all the variety of human events by any previous speculative plans : for, said he, I think that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...collected together, and seated round a table, to devise, i'i. priori, a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion that, notwithstanding all their ability... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...providing for all the variety of human events by any previous speculative plans. For, said he, I think that if a number of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous...to devise, a priori, a constitution for a state, it is my persuasion that notwithstanding all their ability and virtue they would not succeed in adapting... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 560 pages
...nil the variety of " human events, by any previous speculative plans. For, said lie, if a member " of the wisest, ablest, and most virtuous men that...collected together, and seated round a table to devise àpriuri, " a constitution fora state, it is my persuasion, that notwithstanding their ability " and... | |
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