 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - Страниц: 354
...state of the world, we are too prone to forget the wisdom contained in Burke 's words when he said: "The idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires." (Beflections on the French Revolution.) But the principle of improvement presupposes a norm for discerning... | |
 | Summer School of Catholic Studies (Cambridge, England) - 1925 - Страниц: 364
...and confined views. People 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 a sure principle of transmission without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free : but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - Страниц: 538
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to {heir ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, '.that the...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; jvithout^at ajl excluding aprjncipje_£fimprovejnent. ; It leaves acquisition Tree^ but~it~secufes... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - Страниц: 704
...existing in society and war only against its evils. They will start with things as they are. Burke says that "the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure, principle of conservation and a siuv principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
 | Finley - 1971 - Страниц: 68
...Reflections : ' People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ... In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - Страниц: 176
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the...all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisiton free; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - Страниц: 280
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...as in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a land of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive,... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - Страниц: 400
...never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea 205 of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation,...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - Страниц: 480
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - 1989 - Страниц: 324
...practice is 'the happy result of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection and above it'. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding...family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
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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. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... 
