 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 550 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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.... | |
 | English literature - 1830 - 524 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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 to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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 to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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 to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 696 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...going off it." * * * " Laws 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." »... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 pages
...and manners and opinions change with the change of 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 to remain ever under tie APPENDIX NO. XXIX. 651 regimen of their barbarous... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might аз well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the gimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...century of book -reading ; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. . . . We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, a? civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." —... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...does, only deceives himself.* Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. 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. Each... | |
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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. 
