 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1901 - 496 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 440 pages
...advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, theh passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests,...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... | |
 | David Excelmons Cloyd - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 126 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 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... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 486 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 458 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... | |
 | Commonwealth Club of California - California - 1919 - 720 pages
...number of men to have 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 con-fidence to hear that our councils are confounded, like... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1904 - 548 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 - 1904 - 584 pages
...second Convention and not inclined to expect a " perfect production" from any set of men with "their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. ... It therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near to perfection... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...second Convention and not inclined to expect a " perfect production" from any set of men with "their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. ... It therefore astonishes me, sir," he continued, "to find this system approaching so near to perfection... | |
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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. 
