 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - 304 σελίδες
...it." 7 For the foregoing see Ancient Constitution, ch. n and generally. 8 Burke, op. cit., p. 306. 21O Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Karl Mannheim - 1993 - 612 σελίδες
...rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. ... The people of England well know, that the idea of...without at all excluding a principle of improvement' (ibid., p. 78). 'You [the French] had all those advantages in your ancient states; but you chose to... | |
 | William Corlett - 1989 - 290 σελίδες
...it is not reasonable to follow its order in the name of continuity. But Burke attributes to nature a "sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement." Thus, when all is going well in politics, he can reasonably "presume" that nature's path is being followed.... | |
 | Shearer Davis Bowman - 1993 - 374 σελίδες
...inheriting privileges, franchises and liberties from a long line of ancestors," the English well understood "that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."42 Burke's principal... | |
 | Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - 138 σελίδες
...opinion" (162). As such, like all inheritances, it furnishes what Edmund Burke (1955) referred to as "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle...without at all excluding a principle of improvement" (38). Common-law decision making provides a link between the knowledge held by past administrators... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - 356 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...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 σελίδες
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.29 Besides, the people of England well know, that the...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.30 By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | George Eliot - 1999 - 418 σελίδες
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ... the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes XXIH a sure principle of conservatism... without at all excluding the principle of improvement.' 40... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - 322 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...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 σελίδες
...system according to a patrilineal model of inherited wealth, backed up by organic notions of continuity: the people of England well know, that the idea of...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; . . . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in... | |
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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... 
