 | George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 pages
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so, would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress—all improvement. What I do say is, that if we would supplant... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...supplant the opinions and policy of our fathers in auy case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even their great... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...guard a little, against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly 25 in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even 30 their great authority, fairly considered and weighed, cannot stand ; and most surely not in a case... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1913 - 286 pages
...wise to remember the words of Mr. Lincoln: "I do not mean to say we are bound to follow Implicitly In whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...authority fairly considered and weighed cannot stand." Nowadays we take too much for granted. Lulled to sleep by the unparalleled prosperity we have enjoyed... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Democracy - 1913 - 24 pages
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of cuirent experience — to reject all progress, all improvement. What I do say is that if we would supplant... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1914 - 212 pages
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...improvement. What I do say is, that if we would supplant the 20 opinions and policy of our fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive and... | |
 | Edith M. Phelps - Courts - 1915 - 344 pages
...In whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress, all improvement. What I do say...authority fairly considered and weighed cannot stand." Nowadays we take too much for granted. Lulled to sleep by the unparalleled p'rosperity we have enjoyed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 156 pages
...guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound 35 to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to...opinions and policy of our fathers in any case, we should 5 do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even their great authority, fairly... | |
 | James A. Briggs - 1915 - 48 pages
...did. To do eo, would be to discard all the lights of current experience—to reject all progress—all improvement. What I do say is, that if we would supplant the opinions and policy of onr fathers in any case, we should do so upon evidence so conclusive, and argument so clear, that even... | |
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Now, and here, let me guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience —to reject all progress — all improvement. 
