 | Johann Caspar Bluntschli - Constitutional law - 1895 - 604 pages
...liberties, from a long line of ancestors. ... A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a scllish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnishes a sure principle... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1896 - 344 pages
...virtne. f No wise man runs into heedless danger. I No one who runs into heedless danger is a wise man. / People will not look forward to posterity who never look ) backward to their ancestors. j People never look backward to their ancestors who will not look forward to posterity. ( Whatever... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Night II. L. 131. ANCESTBT. The wisdom of our ancestors. e. BACON — (According to Lord Brougham. ) and of Rome. H. ADDISON — Cato. Act I. Sc. 1. So in the Libyan fable it is told That /. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. Page 48. Some decent regulated pre-eminence,... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - University extension - 1897 - 476 pages
...in which men would not grow the wiser by reading them." — WE LECKY. E. SOME APOTHEGMS OF BURKE. " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.'1 " He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 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... | |
 | George W. F. Birch - Claysville (Pa.) - 1899 - 270 pages
...exhibition has been set forth by both the great Edmund Burke and the versatile Lord Macaulay. Says Burke, " People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." Says Macaulay, " A people who takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 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. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. RB Sheridan, The Rivals, IV, i ( 1775) 19 People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1 790) 2ii And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard... | |
 | James H. Toner - History - 240 pages
...for moral tradition.25 Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France put it this way: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." The historical amnesiac will invariably be a moral illiterate; that is, those who have not read history... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...a. from dissections, Harvey: 1 ancestors: democracy makes every man forget his a., Tocqueville: 18 people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their a.. Burke, Edmund: 7 ancient: a. religion part of social order which embraces gods and men alike, Smith,... | |
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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. 
