| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...worth a century of book-reading ; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well reauire a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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...institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well reauire a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. 1 think moderate imperfections had better be borne with...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... | |
| English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...majority, from North to South, 1 have no doubt."— 1822. Vol. iv. 36C-7. 17- WISDOM OF ANCESTRY. — " Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the...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... | |
| B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried...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... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had belter be borne with ; because, when once known, we accommodate...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... | |
| B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 820 pages
...borne with ; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical tneans of correcting their ill effects. But I know, also,...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... | |
| Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 474 pages
...with the progress of the human * Examination of a Declaration of Rights. f Godwin's Political Justice. mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened...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... | |
| George Tucker - 1837 - 542 pages
...worth a century of book reading; this they would say of themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried...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 society... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...As that becomes more developed, more eulighted, as new discoveries are made, new truths disci 'sed, and manners and opinions change with the change of...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... | |
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