 | Elisha M. Friedman, Elisha Michael Friedman - 1918 - 532 páginas
...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...experience of the present; and forty years of experience is worth a century of book reading; and this they would say themselves were they to arise from the... | |
 | Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1920 - 1204 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present; and forty years of experience in government is worthy a century of bookreading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.... | |
 | Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 504 páginas
...did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age [of the Revolution] well. I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...experience of the present ; and forty years of experience is worth a century of book reading ; and this they would say themselves were they to arise from the... | |
 | Herman Finer - 1923 - 298 páginas
........ 249 INDEX ....... 267 PART I SOME ASPECTS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY CHAPTER I ANCIENT LIGHTS Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...would say themselves were they to rise from the dead . . . laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. — THOMAS JEFFERSON,... | |
 | Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 342 páginas
...Marshall and Jefferson 81 did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...present, but without the experience of the present. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 páginas
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with;... | |
 | Ross Lee Finney - 1926 - 492 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...of experience in government is worth a century of book reading ; and this they would say themselves were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 páginas
...that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it; it deserved well of its country. It was very much like the present, but without the experience of the present, and forty years' experience in government is worth a century of book reading; and they would say this were they to rise... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 páginas
...and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment I know that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very...would say themselves were they to rise from the dead." «•" Professor Ford has affirmed that there are still isolated districts, especially in the South,... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 páginas
...suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well ; I belonged to it, and labored with it It deserved well of its country. It was very...the experience of the present ; and forty years of EFFECT ON POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE 259 experience in government is worth a century of book-reading ; and... | |
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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.... 
