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Updated: May 27, 2025
In theory, the social rules of primitive society are like "the law of the Medes and Persians which altereth not." This absolute respect for custom has its good and its bad sides. On the one hand, it supplies the element of discipline; without which any society is bound soon to fall to pieces.
Now I learned that there is no thing in which men have taken delight, that is ever put away from them; for it seems that time, which altereth every custom, hath altered none of our likings: and in every chapter they taught me there were these wars to be found." "Master, the times are altered," said Morano sadly. "It is not now as in old days."
This my resolution is like the law of the Medes and Persians, that altereth not. Be so good as to procure for me a set of Coleridge's 'Watchman, with his Lectures and Poems. I want to write a tragedy here, but can find no leisure to begin it. Portugal is much plagued with robbers, and they generally strip a man, and leave him to walk home in his birth-day suit.
The gods have set a brightness upon the farther side of the Things to Come that they may appear more felititous to men than the Things that Are. To the gods the Things to Come are but as the Things that Are, and nothing altereth in Pegana. The gods, although not merciful, are not ferocious gods. They are the destroyers of the Days that Were, but they set a glory about the Days to Be.
The Germans pay Ali a little, and he traps the Hillmen when they come South lets 'em gamble gets 'em into debt plays on their fear of jail and their ignorance of the Indian Penal Code, which altereth every afternoon and spends a lot of time telling 'em stories to take back with 'em to the Hills when they can get away. They can get away when they've paid him what they owe.
The man can attach himself, though in varying degree, to several women in the course of a lifetime, whilst the woman, the true, pure-hearted woman, cannot so adapt her best affection. Once given, like the law of the Medes and Persians, it altereth not.
For the subiectes of Vtina perceiued euidently the necessitie wherein we were, and began to vse the like speech vnto vs, as the others did: as it is commonly seene that neede altereth mens affections.
"O," said the Jew, "you are come to pay moneys? Holy Father Abraham! that altereth our relation to each other. And from whom dost thou bring it?" "From the Disinherited Knight," said Gurth, "victor in this day's tournament. It is the price of the armour supplied to him by Kirjath Jairam of Leicester, on thy recommendation. The steed is restored to thy stable.
Let the blood mantle in your cheeks, while we give you the answer of the LAW "to pay his jail fees!!" The bill did not pass; and by the late resolution, a statute unparalleled for injustice and atrocity by any mandate of European despotism, is to be like the law of the Medes and Persians, that altereth not, since no proposition for its repeal or modification can be entertained.
This therefore mainly altereth the case; for a man here to stand thus upon his point, it is death; for he affronteth God, he giveth him the lie, he reproveth the law; and, in sum, accuseth it of bearing false witness against him; he doth this, I say, even by saying, "God, I thank thee, I am not as other men are;" for God hath made none of this difference.
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