| Thomas Jefferson - 1998 - 76 Seiten
...circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. .,. JEFFERSON THE DEMOCRAT Jefferson, the patrician landowner, lived in and reflected an age of revolution... | |
| Geoff Gilbert - 1998 - 528 Seiten
...to a friend: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws ... [but] we might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilised society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors". The inscription can... | |
| Benjamin R. Barber - 2000 - 310 Seiten
...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 body, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Letter to... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 Seiten
...Sept. 6, 1819; infra, VI.12. 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...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.2' John Adams was surely right when he remarked that Jefferson "like[d] better the dreams... | |
| Marianne Williamson - 2000 - 292 Seiten
...circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. Today, the rationalism of the European Enlightenment is being repudiated by a more soulful worldview,... | |
| Roger W. Wilkins - 2002 - 188 Seiten
...circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. I can feel these ideas pulsing beneath the words of the Supreme Court opinion in the landmark case... | |
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