 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pagina’s
...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...accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to olil abuses, entrenched themselves behind steady habits, and obliged their subjects to seek through... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 594 pagina’s
...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...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 662 pagina’s
...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...blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to tne gradual changes of circumstances, of favouring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 550 pagina’s
...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...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 pagina’s
...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...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1838 - 696 pagina’s
...remain ever under the iegimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is tliis preposterous idea which hat lately deluged Europe in blood. Their monarchs, instead...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive impiovement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - 1848 - 84 pagina’s
...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 - 678 pagina’s
...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 to remain ever under the regimen of then: barbarous ancestors. It is this preposterous idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood. Their... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 760 pagina’s
...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...yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, bave clung to old abuses, entrenched... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 758 pagina’s
...which fitted him when a boy, аз civilized society to remain ever under the APPENDIX NO. XXIX. 65l regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is this preposterous...idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood. Their monarehs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual changes of circumstances, of favoring progressive... | |
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... progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the... 
