 | Augustus Wood Clason - Constitutional conventions - 1888 - 190 pages
...and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting to hear that our councils are confounded, and that our States are on the point of separation,...only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. I consent to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because I am... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1890 - 412 pages
...sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does: and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear...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... | |
 | John Fiske - United States - 1890 - 412 pages
...waiting with confidence to hear that our 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 cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because... | |
 | John Fiske - Political Science - 1891 - 412 pages
...sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does: and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear...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... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1891 - 220 pages
...to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think that it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear...councils are confounded, like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States arc on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for tinpurpose of... | |
 | Patriotism - 1892 - 436 pages
...waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels 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 cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, sir, to this Constitution, because I expect no better, and because... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - Constitutional history - 1893
...sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our • enemies, who are waiting with confidence to...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... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1893 - 432 pages
...sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear...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... | |
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... their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection... 
