 | Edmund Burke - History - 2008 - 590 pages
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional... | |
 | Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 408 pages
...asserted in the English Constitution themselves an "entailed inheritance" (italics his), Burke exalts, "Besides, the people of England well know, that the...transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement."6 In seeking to balance the conservation of inheritance, with its commitment to the perpetuation... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...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...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1902 - 1102 pages
...Arthurian legend. ¡:Б слоя II. 6. " The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance 20 furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a...without at all excluding a principle of improvement." In what connections, and with what measure of success, does Burke advance the opinion expressed in... | |
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Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. 
