 ... nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and determined DECLARATION FOR INDEPENDENCE. Some of which are: First. It is the custom of nations, when any two are at war, for some other powers not engaged in the quarrel to step in as...  The Open Court - الصفحة 586المحررون: - 1924عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Simon Danser - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 225
...Trubshaw 1997; 2003a Ch.3; Watts 1 954: 58, 63; Whitworth 2003: 202. 90 Chapter 8 Myths of knowledge A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine The world is such and such or so and so only because we talk to our ourselves about its... | |
 | R. W. Kleine - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 185
...contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes... | |
 | Steve Hindes - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...integrity and value of all these institutions. The Age of an Idea Does Not Increase Its Validity ... a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. — Thomas Paine, an American revolutionary... | |
 | Ralph Edwin Robinson - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 189
...so. Julius Caesar maintained that people believe what they want to believe. And from Thomas Piane: A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance ofbeinv right. £ £ JOO a stake for the next deal, but holders of the second-best hands have bet heavily... | |
 | Gloria Pierre - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 212
...reminiscent, evocative, remindful Superficial: concerned only with what is on the surface A long habit ot not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine 1737-1809 Synonyms: skin-deep, on the surface 143 Superior: more effective or excellent... | |
 | Steven Fantina - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...are not luxuries, but necessities— not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.— Jimmy Carter A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.— Thomas Paine 103 We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go... | |
 | Eric Flint, Virginia Easley DeMarce - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...tradition. Even in this matter, there was some comfort to be drawn from Thomas Paine, who had written: "... A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes... | |
 | Peter Linebaugh - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...presupposed criminalizing customary appropriation. In the first paragraph of Common Sense Tom Paine wrote: 'A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom.' The London tradesmen associated the... | |
 | Jonathon Moses - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes... | |
 | Ronald J. Baker - 2010 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes... | |
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