 | 1859 - 802 頁
...human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient...history for models of government, and examined the forms of fhost- republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - 1860 - 526 頁
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gon» back to ancient history for models of government, and examined... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 頁
...sentiments on almost ever}7 question, several of the last producing as many noes as aye-s, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...of government, and examined the different forms of those republics, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 頁
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 頁
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 728 頁
...methinks, a melancholy proof of the impc'rfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to foci our own want of political wisdom, since we have been...of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - 1864 - 516 頁
...of the last producing as many noes jus ayes, are, methinks, melancholy prooi's of the imj>erfeetion of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of jxilitical wisdom, sinee we have been running all about in search of it. AVe have gone back to ancient... | |
 | 1872 - 236 頁
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...of government, and examined the different forms of those republics, which having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 頁
...sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...of government, and examined the different forms of those republies, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 頁
...LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. [JET. Si. several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human...of government, and examined the different forms of those republics, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now... | |
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The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance, and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof... 
