 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears tome to be timber. * All this, I know well enough, will sound...chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 548 pages
...ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy effect cf following nature, which is wisdom without reflection,...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 554 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy...generally the result of a selfish temper and confined viewsi People will not look forward to posterity. who never look Tmckward to their ancestors. Besides,^... | |
 | 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...Posterity, who never look backward to their Ancestors. Besides, the People of England well know, that the idea of Inheritance is a sure principle of Conservation,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 484 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather the...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...inheritingprivileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather the...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
