 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - Liczba stron: 612
...it. A spirit of innovation is geneENGLISH REVERENCE FOR ANTIQUITY. 357 rally the result of a selfish temper 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 idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - Liczba stron: 580
...it. A spirit of innovation is geneENGLISH REVERENCE FOR ANTIQUITY. 357 rally the result of a selfish temper 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 idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1861 - Liczba stron: 484
...generations that come after. These two feelings are most closely connected. It has been finely said that " people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors1." On Founder's Day, if ever, we are instinctively led to do both. We marvel at God's goodness... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - Liczba stron: 774
...of. A spirit of innovation U generally the result 'jf * selfish temper and confined views. People nil p liall. KECREATION-Neeessity for. It being impossible for the mind of ma burke. DíQDTHY— Free. Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, aid applied to proper subjects,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - Liczba stron: 586
...wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a suro principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - Liczba stron: 604
...wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...the people of) England well know that the idea of nishcs a sure principle of conservation, principle of transmission, without at all excluding a \ principle... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1866 - Liczba stron: 474
...blessings of our "civil government," its mingled freedom and antiquity is made the subject of remark. " The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...acquisition free: but it secures what it acquires," &c. &c. — (Reflections on the Revolution in France.) we find, as in our civil government, a great... | |
 | Edward Meyrick Goulburn - 1866 - Liczba stron: 440
...blessings of our "civil government," its mingled freedom and antiquity is made the subject of remark. " The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...acquisition free: but it secures what it acquires," &c. &c. — (Reflections on the Revolution in France.) we find, as in our civil government, a great... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - Liczba stron: 404
...yet be held for a suspect. BACON. Essays. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. BURKE. CUSTOM. CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. IF it were seriously asked... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - Liczba stron: 814
...is the school of genius. — GIBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — BUKKE. 3. High on a throne of royal state, wliieh far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
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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. 
