 ... 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 of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed...  Niles' Weekly Register - Page 1101819Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pages
...methinks 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 all about in search of it. We have gone back to antient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics, which,... | |
 | 1818 - 594 pages
...methinks 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 all about in search of iL We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 pages
...political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back to antient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republies, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We indeed seem to fetl our want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone back lo ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those republics which,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 360 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...different forms of those republics, which having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist ; and we have viewed... | |
 | 1821 - 356 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...different forms of those republics, which having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist ; and we have viewed... | |
 | John Thornton - 1824 - 394 pages
...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 ancient...different forms of those republics, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist ; and we have viewed... | |
 | Timothy Pitkin - 1828 - 558 pages
...methink» a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human uuderstanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running...different forms of those republics, which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist ; and we have viewed... | |
 | 1829 - 742 pages
...methinks, 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 all about in search of it. We bsve gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those... | |
 | Anna C. Reed - 1832 - 282 pages
...methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem iofeel our want of political wisdom, since we have been running...different forms of those republics which, having been originally formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist : and we have viewed... | |
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