 | 1845 - 778 lehte
...express his " profound and solemn conviction, derived from an intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively devoted to the object of devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best secure the... | |
 | 1839 - 622 lehte
...proceedings may be a test ; as the character of the work which was the offspring of their dehberations must be tested by the experience of the future, added...which would best supply the defects of that which it waa to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty and happiness of their country." That resolution... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 700 lehte
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure m their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them, than were... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 lehte
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...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... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 lehte
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...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... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1866 - 716 lehte
...express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunities of observing and appreciating the views of the convention, collectively...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... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 510 lehte
...to express my profound and solemn conviction, derived from my intimate opportunity of observing and appreciating the views of the Convention, collectively...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... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - 1870 - 694 lehte
...assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more anxiously devoted to the object committed to them,...devising and proposing a constitutional system which should best supply the defects of that it was to replace, and best secure the permanent liberty and... | |
 | William Thompson Read - 1870 - 590 lehte
...charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively and anxiously devoted to the object committed to them,...than were the members of the Federal Convention of 1787."—Ibid., vol. ii. p. 719. The Constitution was signed by thirty-five of the fifty-five members... | |
 | William Thompson Read - 1870 - 596 lehte
...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 assemblage of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or... | |
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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... 
