 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 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 Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...of. A spirit of innovation U generally the result 'jf * selfish temper and confined views. People nil p liall. KECREATION-Neeessity for. It being impossible for the mind of ma burke. DíQDTHY— Free. Free inquiry, if restrained within due bounds, aid applied to proper subjects,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 824 pages
...them. This is the way to serve your country, and to make her great, flourishing, and respected ; " the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it." The members of the profession, then, must, as a body, take upon them the office and duties of the Sexviri... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...reformation. And lastly, that the novelty though it be not rejected yet be held for a suspect. BACON. Essays. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. BURKE. CUSTOM. CUSTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools. IF it were seriously asked... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1868 - 286 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather the...selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look foward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. 1 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 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. — BUKKE. 3. High on a throne of royal state, wliieh far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to me to bo the result of profound reflection, or, rather, the...the result of a selfish temper and confined views. Pcnple will not look forward to po$tcrily, who never look backward to their ancestor!. Besides, the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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... | |
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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. 
