 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 trang
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...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 - 1880 - 772 trang
...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 - 1882 - 552 trang
... 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... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1883 - 662 trang
...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) - 1883 - 662 trang
...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 trang
...EXAMPLES. 1. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. — GIBBON. 2. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — BUKKE. 3. High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of Ind, Or... | |
 | 1906 - 858 trang
...be safer and safer through all generations." With more truth than oratory, Edmund Burke has said : "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Other reasons why you should trace your family history have been adduced, but in general they serve... | |
 | Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - 1885 - 556 trang
...commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. ... A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...the people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - 1885 - 546 trang
...and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. ... A spirit of innovation is generally the result of n selfish temper and confined views. People will not...the people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | rev. George Barlow - 1885 - 686 trang
...in similar matters, and can control everything according 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... | |
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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. 
