 If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour ? That one hundred and fifty lawyers...  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Σελίδα 224επεξεργασία από - 1867Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1820 - 486 σελίδες
...the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...Question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour ? 47 That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected. But... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 σελίδες
...apprehend, that Congress is made up too much^ of lawyers, whose practice, in the words of a great statesman, is " to question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour." Were there in the Senate and House of Representatives, fewer of them, by a half or two thirds, we conscientiously... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 486 σελίδες
...the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour ? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected. But to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 σελίδες
...the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour ? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected. But to... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph - 1829 - 506 σελίδες
...can it be otherwise, in a boily to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose traie it is, to question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hotr ? .... , i Tl m one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ou ght not to be expected.... | |
 | 1830 - 812 σελίδες
...themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which toe people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade...question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour ? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected." On the... | |
 | William Allen - 1832 - 816 σελίδες
...much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body, to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade is to question every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?" In May 1784 he was appointed, with Adamsand Franklin, a minister plenipotentiary 10 negotiate treaties... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 σελίδες
...the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That one hundred and fifty Lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected." At length,... | |
 | William Linn - 1834 - 282 σελίδες
...the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...every thing, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected." Early in... | |
 | 1852 - 576 σελίδες
...ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress," he adds, "errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send...hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?" — Tucher's Life of Jefferson. WOOLWICH. — It... | |
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