 | Lady Mary Fox - Australia - 1837 - 274 pages
...stability to governments and other institutions without shutting the door against improvement,—this is a problem which both ancient and modern legislators,...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances; even as our own forefathers, who denoted the southern quarter... | |
 | Lady Mary Fox, Richard Whately - Australia - 1837 - 266 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to dictate to all their descendants for ever, — so as to make the earth, in fact, the possession, not...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances ; even as our own forefathers, who denoted the southern quarter... | |
 | Lady Mary Fox - Australia - 1849 - 272 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to dictate to all their descendants for ever, — so as to make the earth, in fact, the possession, not...that, even supposing our ancestors gifted with such LEGISLATIVE EXPEDIENT. 101 infallibility, many cases must arise in which it may be reasonably doubted... | |
 | Richard Whately - Ethics - 1856 - 460 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to dictate to all their descendants for ever, so as to make the earth, in fact, the possession, not...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances ; even as our own forefathers, who denoted the southern quarter... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to control all their descendants for ever; which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances. For instance, those who denoted the southern quarter from meridies... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to control all their descendants for ever ; which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances. For instance, those who denoted the southern quarter from meridies... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Taxation - 1857 - 510 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to control all their descendants for ever : which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances. An antiquated form, however perverted from its original purpose,... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - Theology - 1866 - 560 pages
...to control all their descendants forever ; which is to make the earth, in fact, not the possession of the living, but of the dead ; and secondly, that...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances." LADY DUFF GORDON WITH THE MUSLIMS. — The Letters from Egypt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to control all their descendants forever; which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances. •ward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...generation of such infallible wisdom as to be entitled to control all their descendants for ever ; which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of...themselves would not have advocated, if living, changes called for by altered circumstances. For instance, those who denoted the southern quarter from meridies... | |
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... which is to make the earth, in fact, the possession not of the living, but of the dead ; and, secondly, that even supposing our ancestors gifted with such infallibility, many cases must arise in which it may be reasonably doubted whether they themselves... 