 | 1847 - 566 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...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,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold's - 1847 - 586 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,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 σελίδες
...EXAMPLES. 1. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude i.. the school of genius. — GIBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — BUKKI;. 3. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | 1852 - 746 σελίδες
...who, if famed for any one property especially, it was that of virtue and honesty combined. Burke says, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." And let me ask, sir, what are our administrators doing for posterity ? If we may judge from the concessions... | |
 | 1852 - 532 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...It leaves acquisition free, but it secures what it has acquired." Without permanence, the institutions of a country would be destitute of that weight... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 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 backtcard to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 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 a selfish temper and confined views. People trill not look forward to posterity, icho never look backward to their ancestor!. Besides, the people... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 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 a selfish temper and confined views. Penple will not look fortrard to pottcrily, who nci-cr look backward to then ancestor!. Besides, the... | |
 | 1852 - 662 σελίδες
...that morbidly discontented spirit that regards nothing gained so long яя any thing remains ungained. "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." The Whig party hopes in the future, and therefore reverts to the past. It recognizes that every thing... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 σελίδες
...letter of the law against the equity, is the most insupportable. — Sir R. L' Estrange. INNOVATION. — A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Burke. INNUENDOS. — How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of, by a smile... | |
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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. 
