| Frank Abbott Magruder - 1921 - 504 páginas
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in the following words : " Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they 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... | |
| 1926 - 548 páginas
...stature ». Notes on Virginia, Query XVI f, I, 223. Thirty years later he wrote to Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think... | |
| Randolph Leigh - 1923 - 342 páginas
...into conflict with his cousin. Jefferson wrote thus of blind worship of established institutions : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they Marshall and Jefferson 81 did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored... | |
| 1927 - 782 páginas
...Jefferson's mind, in spite of his enthusiasm for the Constitution of the United States. "Some men," he said, "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. ... I am certainly not an advocate of frequent and... | |
| Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - 1925 - 87 páginas
...s'étaient écoulées depuis la Déclaration d'Indépendance, il écrivait à Samuel Kercheval : « Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred lo be loucbcd. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and unlried changes in laws and constitutions.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1926 - 514 páginas
...misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing...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... | |
| Ross Lee Finney - 1926 - 492 páginas
...from Thomas Jefferson, written in 1816, several years after his final retirement from public life : "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...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... | |
| Harry Elmer Barnes - 1926 - 638 páginas
...framing or ratification, is admirably illustrated by the following opinion of Thomas Jefferson: 27 Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious...preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose that what they did was beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it and labored with it;... | |
| John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 páginas
...with which some men look at constitutions. "They ascribe to the men of the preceding age," he says, "a wisdom more than human, 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... | |
| Frank Abbott Magruder - 1928 - 610 páginas
...not be changed, but Thomas Jefferson expresses the contrary view in ths following words: "Some men ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more...what they 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... | |
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