 Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people and the industrious generally to attend. The character of those who really met would have been the measure...  The Old South Leaflets: Annual ser - Page 11883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...opinion, with the injunction, " divide the counties into wards." Begin them only for a single purpose ; they will soon show for what others they are the best... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 636 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...opinion, with the injunction, " divide the counties into wards." Begin them only for a single purpose ; they will soon show for what others they are the best... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 568 pages
...at and about the courthouses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good peopie and the industrious generally to attend. The character...would have had in the scale of public opinion. As Gato then concluded every speech with the words " Carthago clelenda est," so do I every opinion with... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 572 pages
...at and about the courthouses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good peopie and the industrious generally to attend. The character of those who really met would have heen the measure of the weight they would have had in the scale of public opinion. As Cuto then concluded... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, Joseph Carrington Cabell - 1856 - 576 pages
...at and about the courthouses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good peopie and the industrious generally to attend. The character of those who really met \vould have been the measure of the weight they would have had in the scale of public opinion. As Cato... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1874 - 556 pages
...meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distance being too great for the good people and the industrious...the measure of the weight they would have had in the scales of public opinion." IX. IN THE STATE, We find a very important and well compacted part of our... | |
 | Social sciences - 1882 - 1096 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...opinion, with the injunction, 'divide the counties into wards.' Begin them onty for a single purpose ; they will soon show for what others they are the best... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Local government - 1882 - 564 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...concluded every speech with the words, ' Carthago dele.ida est.' so do I every opinion, with the injunction, 'divide the counties into wards.' Begin... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - History - 1883 - 502 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...opinion, with the injunction, 'divide the counties into wards.' Begin them on\y for a single purpose ; thes- will soon show for what others they are the best... | |
 | Local government - 1883 - 504 pages
...Call a county meeting, and the drunken loungers at and about the court houses would have collected, the distances being too great for the good people...concluded every speech with the words, ' Carthago dclcnda est,' so do I every opinion with the injunction, ' divide the counties into wards.' Begin them... | |
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