 | Albert Piacente - 2004 - 204 páginas
...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...civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their...ancestors. Thomas Jefferson (bracketed passage and edit are mine.) Contents Preface vii Chapter... | |
 | Craig Duncan, Tibor R. Machan - 2005 - 192 páginas
...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...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.17 Notes 1. For some idea of the moral subtleties involved, see Judith Jarvis Thomson, "Self-Defense,"... | |
 | Michele Swenson - 2004 - 203 páginas
...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...to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors."26 Of women's centuries-long existence on the fringes of society, Brennan observed, "...such... | |
 | Arturo Toscanini - 2006 - 494 páginas
...keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the...monarchs instead of wisely yielding to the gradual change of circumstances, of favoring progressive accommodation to progressive improvement have clung... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2005 - 148 páginas
...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. To Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816 Pain THE HEAD SPEAKING The art of life is the art of... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - 2006 - 260 páginas
...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. . . . Let us, as our sister States have done, avail ourselves of our reason and experience, to correct... | |
 | Kathleen Loftus - 2006 - 264 páginas
...must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the same coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society...ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. " — Thomas Jefferson, July 12, 1810 THE "MISSION" 'WHAT DO THEY THINK THEY'RE DOING?" "MISSION STATEMENTS"... | |
 | Gary Hart - 2006 - 208 páginas
...questions require an affirmative answer. Times change; institutions must change. "We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy," said Thomas Jefferson, "as civilized societies to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous... | |
 | Daniel Treisman - 2007 - 295 páginas
...constitution, would perhaps have replied as he wrote to Samuel Kercheval in 1816: "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 1999 [1774-1826], p. 215). 22 Quoted in Oakeshott (1991, p. 389). 292 results cannot be... | |
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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. 
