 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We hare gon« back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1862 - 582 pages
...or five weeks of 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, methiuks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings witli each other — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing...the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing...human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing...N^oes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the impc'rfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to foci our own want of political wisdom,... | |
 | Salem Town, Nelson M. Holbrook - English language - 1864 - 516 pages
...or five weeks close attendance and continued reasonings with one another, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes jus ayes, are, methinks, melancholy prooi's of the imj>erfeetion of the human understanding. We indeed... | |
 | Church and state - 1872 - 236 pages
...or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing...the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 556 pages
...or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing...the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 796 pages
...our different sentiments on almost every question, 388 PRAYER IN LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. [JET. Si. several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes,...the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...each other; our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing almost as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy...human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to... | |
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President, 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,... 
