 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confouaied, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 476 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 470 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 purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 474 pages
...to perfection as it does. And I think it will astonish our enemies who are waiting with conftdence 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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 676 pages
...sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; ancj I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of (he builders of Babel ; and that our states are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...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...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our Slates are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 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. 4. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1873 - 266 pages
...approaching so near to perfection as it does; and 1 tfiink it will confound our enemies, who ai(fe 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 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... 
