 | Philip Smith Sparling - 1854 - 136 pages
...worst contingencies, formed his calculations with admirable skill. ENGLAND'S CONSTITUTIONAL POLICY. 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 furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...of ancestors. ' 1 W. and M. \ This policy appears to me to be the result of profound re- v flection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...EXAMPLES. 1. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. — G-IBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — BUKKE. 3. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from, a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to me to be which you have consulted your own understanding....renounced the name of Englishman,4 believe me, sir, Besides, the people of England well mow that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...not, according to the charity of those into whose hands it shall happen to fall. — Sterne. DCXXXV. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Burhe. DCXXXVL Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection, must... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...EXAMPLES. 1. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. — GIBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — BURKE. 3. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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...reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is geneENGLISH REVERENCE FOR ANTIQUITY. 357 rally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 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...reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is geneENGLISH REVERENCE FOR ANTIQUITY. 357 rally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 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... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - 1861 - 484 pages
...generations that come after. These two feelings are most closely connected. It has been finely said that " people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors1." On Founder's Day, if ever, we are instinctively led to do both. We marvel at God's goodness... | |
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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. 
