 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1893 - 402 pages
..." not," was put off till to-morrow, at the request of the Deputies from New York. Doctor FRANKLIN. Mr. President, The small progress we have made after...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... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893 - 412 pages
..." not," was put off till to-morrow, at the request of the Deputies from New York. Doctor FRANKLIN. Mr. President, The small progress we have made after...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 464 pages
...President: THE small progress we have made, after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasons with each other, our different sentiments on almost...of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel o1ir own want of political wisdom, since we have been running all about in search of it. We have gone... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 462 pages
...thee, RICHARD SAUNDERS. SPEECH IN THE FEDERAL CONVENTION, IN FAVOR OF OPENING ITS SESSIONS WITH PRAYER Mr. President: THE small progress we have made, after...four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasons with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing... | |
 | 1897 - 976 pages
...close attendance & continual reasonings with each other — our difevery ferent sentiments on almost question, several of the last producing as many noes...the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running aboxit in search of it. We have gone back... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pages
...assistance of Providence in bringing order out of chaos, and a constitution out of disagreement. " The small progress we have made, after four or five...our different sentiments on almost every question, and several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1899 - 204 pages
...Convention assembled at Philadelphia, 1787, to revise the then existing Articles of Confederation. MR. PRESIDENT, The small progress we have made after...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... | |
 | Edward Sylvester Ellis - 1899 - 184 pages
...seige that Dr. Franklin made the following address, which deserves to be incorporated in this sketch : "Mr. President: The small progress we have made after...the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is methinks as melancholy proof of the imperfec^ tion of the human understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own... | |
 | Henry W. Cherouny - 1900 - 208 pages
...else the ill-feeling and reluctance of the delegates against the Constitution of the United States: "Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks of close attendance and continual reasonings with each other-—our different sentiments on almost... | |
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Mr. 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,... 
