 I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively and individually, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great...  The United States Democratic Review - Seite 2491839Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1921 - 616 Seiten
...conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with...trust who were more pure in their motives or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them than were the members of the Federal Convention of... | |
 | Joseph Ragland Long - 1922 - 540 Seiten
...patriotic purpose. There was no self-seeking nor favoring of any particular class. Madison records that: "There never was an assembly of men charged...trust, who were more pure in their motives or more anxiously devoted to the objects submitted to them." 18. The Work of the Convention. — The convention... | |
 | James Montgomery Beck - 1924 - 358 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them." — Madison. ONE problem remained for solution. After some vacillation, and with great hesitation,... | |
 | Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 360 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them. ROBERT MORRIS This paper has been the subject of infinite investigation, disputation, and declamation.... | |
 | Harvey Toliver Cook - 1926 - 506 Seiten
...Madison left the convention with the conviction "that there never was an assembly of men, charged with great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their...motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the high 394 object committed to them." Pure disinterestedness is rarer than radium. Each brought to the... | |
 | 1924 - 298 Seiten
...conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them." This high sense of duty is beautifully brought out in an intimate letter of George Mason to his son,... | |
 | 1928 - 500 Seiten
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous task, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed... | |
 | 1905 - 950 Seiten
...judgment, and upon the vital subjects an intense and irreconcilable hostility of opinion. It has been said that there never was an assembly of men charged with...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that which it was to replace and best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 Seiten
...delays or by new experiments."46 Madison marvelled that there never had been "an assembly of men . . . who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively...anxiously devoted to the object committed to them" — that of "devising and proposing a constitutional system . . . to best secure the permanent liberty... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - 1999 - 836 Seiten
...from my intimate opportunity of observing & appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively & individually, that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great & arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously [devoted to... | |
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