 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 σελίδες
...and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
 | David Loyd Pulliam - 1901 - 188 σελίδες
...will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes...acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state of proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 σελίδες
..." views. People will not look forward to posterity " who never look backward to their ancestors. " Besides, the people of England well know that the...transmission, " without at all excluding a principle of improve" ment. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures " what it acquires. Whatever advantages are... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 σελίδες
...people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnished a sure principle of conservatism, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.' Such a principle of inheritance and transmission, he goes on to say, corresponds to that ' mysterious... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 σελίδες
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mort1 i W. and M. main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 458 σελίδες
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mort1 1 W. and M. main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 σελίδες
...People will not look forward to posterlly, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, foe people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance...furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure Pf inciple of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 σελίδες
...and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
 | Iowa State Bar Association - 1912 - 286 σελίδες
...the idea of inheritance which pervades them, and which "furnishes a sure principle of conservatism and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement." As they have been transmitted by former generations with the estates so they will pass from those who... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 σελίδες
...forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England will know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure...state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as is a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy,... | |
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... 
