 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 էջ
...themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and notried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | 1830 - 524 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances — of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 458 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | George Tucker - 1837 - 542 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances,of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 էջ
...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 - 1848 - 84 էջ
...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." » * * " Each generation is as independent of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 էջ
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 էջ
...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...civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of then: barbarous ancestors. It is this preposterous idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood. Their... | |
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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. 
