 Is your object uniformity ? Then, before you change any part of your system, such as it is, compare the uniformity that you must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain, by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next...  The Metric Fallacy - Page 134by Frederick Arthur Halsey - 1904 - 231 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...the object of pursuit is the same for both, and the interest in it common to both, it would say — Is your object uniformity ? Then, before you change...must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain, by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...the object of pursuit is the same for both, and the interest in it common to both, it would say — Is your object uniformity? Then before you change...you must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...the object of pursuit is the same for both, and the interest in it common to both, it would say — Is your object uniformity ? Then, before you change...must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain, by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Science - 1871 - 394 pages
...same for both, and the interest in it common to both, it would say — Is your object uniformity 9 Then, before you change any part of your system, such...must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain, by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Mechanical engineering - 1907 - 1112 pages
...only, thereby wo would destroy our present uniformity and would inaugurate confusion. Says Mr. Adams," Is your object uniformity"! Then, before you change...must lose, with the uniformity that you may gain, by the alteration." 49 In confirmation of this argument, the following figures are submitted showing... | |
 | Economics - 1921 - 780 pages
...their attitude in this connection with the following statement of John Quincy Adams, made in 1821 : Is your object uniformity? Then before you change...you must lose with the uniformity that you may gain by the alteration. At this hour fifteen millions of Britons who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measures - 1926 - 394 pages
...of this subject, or at least a related subject, by President John Quincy Adams, who in 1828 said : Is your object uniformity? Then, before you change any part of your system, compare the uniformity that you must lose with the uniformity that you may gain by the alteration.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures - Weights and measures - 1928 - 116 pages
...measures." February 22, 1821. John Quincy Adams, report to Congress in response to a Senate resolution: "Is your object uniformity? Then, before you change...you must lose with the uniformity that you may gain by the alteration. At this hour, fifteen millions of Britons, who, in the next generation, may be twenty,... | |
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