 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 382 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... | |
 | Louis Arthur Holman - 1916 - 134 pages
...is always in the right"; and reminding the members of their enemies who were confidently expecting "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... | |
 | Peace - 1919 - 252 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1949 - 664 pages
...are waiting with confidence to hear that 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - Aeronautics, Military - 1949 - 658 pages
...are waiting with confidence to hear that 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... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 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... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 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... | |
 | Various - History - 1994 - 676 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 404 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... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...a constitution that was the product of so many compromises could be so good, but "it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded. . . . Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure... | |
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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... 
