 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...wantonness of folly, may in an instant destroy it by removing a girdle of its bark. It has been said, that a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views.* Perhaps this is pressing the reasoning too far. It is more often the result of a strong imagination... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...only mystery of able men. Mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.—Chesterfield. 821. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.—Burke. 822. good company, and reflection, must finish him.— Locke. Education begins... | |
 | John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - 150 pages
...; and a People inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of Ancestors." " A spirit of Innovation is generally the result of...of England well know, that the idea of Inheritance is a sure principle of Conservation, and a sure principle of Transmission, without at all excluding... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...leads nowhere : Gthly, He was reckoned a fine writer, and seemed always to mean more than he said. 2 A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...ancestors. The policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection,...will not look forward to posterity, who never look 1 W. and M. c backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1847 - 584 pages
...says : " This policy appears to me the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, -which is wisdom without reflection...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 566 pages
...says : " This policy appears to me the result of profound reflection ; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection...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 pages
...says : " This policy appears to me the result of -profound reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection...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 - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
