 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. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 169edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...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. By...adhering in this manner and on those principles to 3iir forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition Df antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic... | |
 | 1890 - 340 pages
...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. By...principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance... | |
 | 1846 - 438 pages
...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. By...principles, to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what w© improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. By...principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy. In this choice of inheritance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1955 - 384 pages
...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. By...principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophick analogy. In this choice of inheritance... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1913 - 220 pages
...France, " People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ... By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians but by the spirit of philosophic analogy." PAGE 83 to shorten the duration... | |
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