| J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - Страниц: 304
...it." 7 For the foregoing see Ancient Constitution, ch. n and generally. 8 Burke, op. cit., p. 306. 21O 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... | |
| Karl Mannheim - 1993 - Страниц: 612
...rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. ... The people of England well know, that the idea of...without at all excluding a principle of improvement' (ibid., p. 78). 'You [the French] had all those advantages in your ancient states; but you chose to... | |
| William Corlett - 1989 - Страниц: 290
...it is not reasonable to follow its order in the name of continuity. But Burke attributes to nature a "sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement." Thus, when all is going well in politics, he can reasonably "presume" that nature's path is being followed.... | |
| Shearer Davis Bowman - 1993 - Страниц: 374
...inheriting privileges, franchises and liberties from a long line of ancestors," the English well understood "that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."42 Burke's principal... | |
| Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - Страниц: 138
...opinion" (162). As such, like all inheritances, it furnishes what Edmund Burke (1955) referred to as "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle...without at all excluding a principle of improvement" (38). Common-law decision making provides a link between the knowledge held by past administrators... | |
| Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - Страниц: 356
...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... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - Страниц: 476
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.29 Besides, the people of England well know, that the...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.30 By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
| George Eliot - 1999 - Страниц: 418
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ... the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes XXIH a sure principle of conservatism... without at all excluding the principle of improvement.' 40... | |
| Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - Страниц: 322
...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... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - Страниц: 432
...system according to a patrilineal model of inherited wealth, backed up by organic notions of continuity: the people of England well know, that the idea of...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; . . . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in... | |
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