 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1925 - 376 σελίδες
...race, the whole, at one time, is never old or middle-aged or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.' B France, on the other hand, has taken exactly the opposite course. And the consequences are visible... | |
 | Summer School of Catholic Studies (Cambridge, England) - 1925 - 364 σελίδες
...middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....preserving the method of nature in the conduct of state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 σελίδες
...excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it .acquires. . . . By preserving the method of nature in the conduct...new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." True, progress in all the arte and sciences requires a certain readiness to experiment with the unknown... | |
 | George Sternlieb, Lynne B. Sagalyn, Lynne B. Sagalyn - 292 σελίδες
...All sensible men would prefer that under all circumstances the conservatism of Burke were possible. 'In what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. The disposition to preserve and ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a Statesman.'1... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1993 - 344 σελίδες
...once upon principles of history and of expediency is resolved in terms of natural order philosophy: "by preserving the method of nature in the conduct...wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete."2' Critical opinion concedes to Smith an affinity for history. He "had a considerable historical... | |
 | R. J. Smith - 2002 - 252 σελίδες
...middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression....wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.103 There in that nutshell lies the difference that separated Burke both from the Saxonists... | |
 | Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 σελίδες
...race, the whole, at one time, is never old or middle-aged or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression."4 Eine solche Metaphorik kann leicht organizistisch mißverstanden werden. Was für Burkes... | |
 | Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, Carroll William Westfall - 1991 - 438 σελίδες
...world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts. . . . Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state ... we are never wholly new, and ... we are never wholly obsolete."8 It is the repository of the diversity... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 σελίδες
...stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race. . . . " By "preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, " deliberation is made "a matter not of choice, but of necessity," and political justice is thus secured.*7... | |
 | William Corlett - 1989 - 290 σελίδες
...the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...new, in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete. (Burke, 19o2, II:3o7) Some readers might be tempted, if asked to offer an example of Burke's "permanent... | |
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Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. 
