 Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...  The complete works ... of ... Benjamin Franklin - Page 415by Benjamin Franklin - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 324 pages
...Sir, to find this fyftem approaching fo near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will aftonifh our enemies, who are waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, like thofe of the builders of Babylon, and that our ftates are on the point of feparation, only to meet... | |
 | English literature - 1788 - 678 pages
...fyftem approaching fo near to perfection aa it does. And i think it will aftonifh our enemies, xvho are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like tbofe of the builders of Babel, and that our fenalors are on the point of fcparation, only to meet... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Essays - 1794 - 348 pages
...Sir, to find this fyllem approaching fo near to perfection as it does; and I think it will aftonim our enemies, who are waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, ISti thofe of the builders of Babylon, and that our:,. ftates are on the point of reparation, only... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...production be expected ? It therefore astonishes me? eir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From sueh an assembly can a perfect production be expected ?...find this system approaching so near to perfection asit does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence, to hear that... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 570 pages
...with those rnen, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to lind this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and 1 think it will astonish our enemies,who... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1809 - 466 pages
...with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can...it does ; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who.are waiting with confidence to hear, that our councils are confounded, like those of the builders... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly, can a perfect pioduction be expected ? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to...near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will establish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, like... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...views. From sucji an assembly can a perfeet production be expected ?. It .therefore astonishes me, Kir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does ; and I think it will astonish our Y2 enemies, who are waiting with confidence, to hear that our councils are confounded, like those of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...local interests, and their selfish view?. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected I It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system...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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