 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Liczba stron: 660
...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...transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1896 - Liczba stron: 344
...virtne. f No wise man runs into heedless danger. I No one who runs into heedless danger is a wise man. / People will not look forward to posterity who never look ) backward to their ancestors. j People never look backward to their ancestors who will not look forward to posterity. ( Whatever... | |
 | 1896 - Liczba stron: 1224
...Night II. L. 131. ANCESTBT. The wisdom of our ancestors. e. BACON — (According to Lord Brougham. ) and of Rome. H. ADDISON — Cato. Act I. Sc. 1. So in the Libyan fable it is told That /. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. Page 48. Some decent regulated pre-eminence,... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - Liczba stron: 476
...in which men would not grow the wiser by reading them." — WE LECKY. E. SOME APOTHEGMS OF BURKE. " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.'1 " He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - Liczba stron: 558
...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...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
 | George W. F. Birch - 1899 - Liczba stron: 270
...exhibition has been set forth by both the great Edmund Burke and the versatile Lord Macaulay. Says Burke, " People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." Says Macaulay, " A people who takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never... | |
 | Huber Gray Buehler - 1900 - Liczba stron: 308
...emotion of envy dies in me. . Pompeii was suddenly buried beneath a shower of ashes Mount Vesuvius. 9. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. 10. Books that you may carry to the fire and hold readily in your hand are the most useful after all.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - Liczba stron: 588
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never...acquisition free : but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are locked fast as in a sort... | |
 | David Loyd Pulliam - 1901 - Liczba stron: 188
...GOVERNMENT. " 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 well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - Liczba stron: 616
...Confined Views — 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. Judges and the Law — Judges are guided and governed by the eternal laws of justice, to which we are... | |
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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. 
