 | 1888 - 782 pages
...Between that world and me — And I tread its dim ways only As I dream in your song, O sea I A SPOUT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish...People will not look forward to- posterity who never looked backward to their ancestors. PELTIER'S CASE. AFTER tho peace of Amiens had been trumped up in... | |
 | Dayaran Gidumal Shahani - Marriage (Hindu law) - 1889 - 472 pages
...are " not wholly new " just as we should see that "in what we retain we are not wholly obsolete," for "people will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors " ; that, therefore, upon the body and stock of our inheritance we should not •" inoculate any scion... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle - Presbyterian Church - 1889 - 638 pages
...the virtues of our ancestry, and to do honor to the memory of our fathers. Burke has well said : " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." But, aside from the filial duty so becoming in itself, we may strengthen our hands and encourage our... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. 20 This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather the...generally the result of a selfish temper and confined jviews. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides,... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...will suspect none. Ben Jonton. Innocence is always unsuspicious. Haliburton. INNOVATION. SPIRIT OF. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Burke. INSTINCT. DEFINITIONS OF. An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 680 pages
...in similar matters, and can control everything accoiding to their own good pleasure. — Lange. — A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Burke. — It is a dangerous presumption to make innovations if but in the circumstances of God's... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...never throw stones. Pr. People who never have any time are those who do least. I.ichtenberg. (?) 20 ngora. 15 La vie des héros a enrichi l'histoire, et l'histoire a embelli les action Burke. People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 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...will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes-... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 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...will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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...will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
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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. 
