 | 1885 - 1234 pàgines
...American Constitution were very far from intending a democracy in the strict sense of the word. They knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past, or to think, like the French, that a new government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes. They... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 pàgines
...this has been generally the slowy result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1888 - 834 pàgines
...mother, and these 1 Mr. Lowell has said with equal point and truth of the men of the Convention : " They had a profound disbelief in theory and knew better...French fallacy that a new system of government could he ordered like a new suit of clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a suit of flesh... | |
 | William Crary Brownell - 1889 - 436 pàgines
...has something of a post-prandial flavor, as of enunciations essentially detached and undirected; — "the French fallacy that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of clothes," " no dithyrambic affirmations or wire-drawn analyses of the Rights of Man would serve," " the British... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 pàgines
...this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 pàgines
...this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 pàgines
...growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in rtheory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such... | |
 | 1890 - 868 pàgines
...years of struggle and conflict out of which I it had been evolved. They had no faith in the theory that a new system of government could be ordered like a new suit of 1 clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a " new suit of flesh and skin." "They had,"... | |
 | 1891 - 624 pàgines
...motion in politics any more than in mechanics." . . . . " The framers of the American Constitution were not seduced by the French fallacy that a new...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin." . . . . " They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 330 pàgines
...result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound dishelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly...clothes. They would as soon have thought of ordering a new suit of flesh and skin. It is only on the roaring loom of time that the stuff is woven for such... | |
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But this has been generally the slow result of growth, and not the sudden innovation of theory ; in fact, they had a profound disbelief in theory, and knew better than to commit the folly of breaking with the past. They were not seduced by the French... 
