 | United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1893 - 432 pages
...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,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like... | |
 | John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond - United States - 1885 - 832 pages
...men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. It therefore astonishes me to find this system approaching so near perfection as it does ; and I think... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - Constitutional history - 1893
...of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, yon inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their aclfisjh views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes... | |
 | Marine engineering - 1894 - 586 pages
...— -to obtain the advantage of their joint wisdom yon inevitably assemble with these men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. Such an assembly, might be thought, could scarcely be expected to take a calm, judicial view of the... | |
 | Archives - 1897 - 976 pages
...men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1898 - 444 pages
...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with these men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly," he asks, " can a perfect production be expected ?" He confesses, in his speech at the close of the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 462 pages
...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like... | |
 | Literature - 1900 - 460 pages
...men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Rolls and Library - Constitutional history - 1900 - 936 pages
...men to have the advantage of their joiot wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like... | |
 | James Madison - Constitutional history - 1787 - 578 pages
...men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion,...near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like... | |
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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 pas,sions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. 
