 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 σελίδες
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. Dearborn U secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 σελίδες
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, ti w. and M. that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 σελίδες
...wantonness of folly, may in an instant destroy it by removing a girdle of its bark. It has been said, that a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views.* Perhaps this is pressing the reasoning too far. It is more often the result of a strong imagination... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 σελίδες
...only mystery of able men. Mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.—Chesterfield. 821. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.—Burke. 822. good company, and reflection, must finish him.— Locke. Education begins... | |
 | John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - 150 σελίδες
...; and a People inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of Ancestors." " A spirit of Innovation is generally the result of...of England well know, that the idea of Inheritance is a sure principle of Conservation, and a sure principle of Transmission, without at all excluding... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 σελίδες
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined viewsi People will not look forward to posterity. who never look Tmckward to their ancestors. Besides,^... | |
 | John Centlivres Chase - 1843 - 376 σελίδες
...specially belonging to the people, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...improvement, It leaves acquisition free, but it secures all it acquires. Such is the language of Burke, who, speaking of two truly great lawyers Coke and Blackstone,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 σελίδες
...leads nowhere : Gthly, He was reckoned a fine writer, and seemed always to mean more than he said. 2 A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 σελίδες
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...will not look forward to posterity, who never look 1 W. and M. c backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1847 - 584 σελίδες
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, -which is wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,... | |
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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. 
