 | Alabama. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1920 - 1204 pages
...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...the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. It is this preposterious idea which has lately deluged Europe in blood. Their monarchs, instead of wisely yielding... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1926 - 484 pages
...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...accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung to old abuses, entrenched themselves behind steady habits, and obliged their subjects to seek, through... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1926 - 514 pages
...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...monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1944 - 922 pages
...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...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Ford, Jefferson's Writings, vol. X, p. 42. Opinion of the Court. 320 US United States v. Rovin, 12... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1946 - 1538 pages
...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...boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their barbarous ancestors. Thank you. The Chairman. We thank you, Dr. Allen, for the information... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - Social security - 1946 - 1552 pages
...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...boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regime of their barbarous ancestors. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. We thank you, Dr. Allen, for the information... | |
 | Agriculture - 1942 - 584 pages
...circumstances, institutions Bust advance also, and keep pace with the times. we might as well require a aan to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy,...monarchs, instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement, have clung... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget - Budget - 1994 - 534 pages
...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. Thank you very much. Senator DODD. Thank you very much, Dr. Perelman, for your testimony. You do not... | |
 | John R. McCall - Educational leadership - 1994 - 248 pages
...advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat that fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." Thomas Jefferson, who fought so hard to get the farmers to let their children be free from work in... | |
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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. 
