 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputeth it to the author. LORD BACON: Essay XXV., Of Innovations. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France. INSANITY. " I have," said Dr. Allen, "been a practising... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. » i W. and M. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection; or rather the happy...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 - 1877 - 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...of a selfish temper and confined views. People will jiot look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1881 - 470 pages
...franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. • I W. and M. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound • reflection ; or rather...innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and con- ^1 J ^ fined views. People wiLLaet-lookforward-tQ rjosteritVjjwho *> e never look j)ack-ward to... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 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...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. It leaves acquisition free, but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputelh it to the author. LORD BACON: Essay XXV., Of Innovations. able in conversation and common lile. Great talents, such BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France. INSANITY. been for ten years medical superintendent... | |
 | Charles James Taylor - Great Barrington (Mass. : Town) - 1882 - 552 pages
... HISTOEY '••^o OF GREAT BARKIMTON, (BERKSHIRE COUNTY,) MASSACHUSETTS, BY CHARLES J. TAYLOR ' People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." EDMUND BURKE. GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS. : CLARK W. BRYAN & CO., PUBLISHERS. h To the Inhabitants of the... | |
 | Carl Menger - Economics - 1883 - 336 pages
...from our forefatlieri, and to be transmitted to ovr posterity . . . This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection, or rather the happy...following nature, which is wisdom without reflection and alove it" (Reflections on the Revol. in France. Works, London 1792, III, 58 ff.). Den ein3. Die Ideen... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1883 - 662 pages
...this history embraces many interesting facts, and is suggestive in many ways. The words of Burke, ' People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors/ are printed upon the tillepage. — D. w. B. [753 INTELLIGENCE FROM AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC STATIONS. PUBLIC... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1883 - 662 pages
...this history embraces many interesting facts, and is suggestive in many ways. The words of Burke, ' People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors,' are printed upon the titlepage. — D. w. B. [753 INTELLIGENCE FROM AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC STATIONS. PUBLIC... | |
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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. 
