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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... "
Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Consisting of Memoirs of His Early Life - Page 248
by Benjamin Franklin - 1810 - 274 pages
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Bulletin of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of ..., Volume 9

Archives - 1897 - 976 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 of...
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Benjamin Franklin: Printer, Statesman, Philosopher and Practical Citizen ...

Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 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. Thus, I consent, sir, to this constitution, because I expect no better, and...
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The True Benjamin Franklin

Sydney George Fisher - Statesmen - 1898 - 440 pages
...waiting with confidence to bear 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. . . . " On the whole, sir, I cannot help expressing a wish, that every member...
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 6

David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 462 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. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because...
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The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional ...

James Madison - Constitutional history - 1787 - 578 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 of...
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A Library of Universal Literature: In 4 Parts, Comprising Science ..., Volume 6

Literature - 1900 - 460 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. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because...
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Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn ...

Mabel Hill - Constitutional history - 1901 - 492 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...
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Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 498 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...
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Civil government in the United States

John Fiske - 1902 - 494 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 of...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 5

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 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. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because...
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