 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to tne gradual changes of circumstances, of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, 290 as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is this... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched themselves behind steady habits, and obliged their subjects to seek, through... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 568 pages
...circumstances, institution-! must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 458 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched themselves behind steady habits, and obliged their subjects to seek through... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man still to wear the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized...instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances,of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society 1o remain ever under the iegimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is tliis preposterous idea which... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain over under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." ยป * * " Each generation is as independent of... | |
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We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. 
