 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.  The Theory of the State - Page 429by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - 1885 - 518 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...to be secured against their return. INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. i It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until it comes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...to be secured against their return. INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. * * * * It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...Milesians it applies, as if they sat for the picture. " A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish * i temper and confined views. People will not look forward...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...their return. INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper anijl confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until it comes... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; without... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 520 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and * 1 W. and M. confined views. People will not look forward to posterity,...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...moon, like children we must cry on. INNOVATION. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. It cannot at this time be too often repeated, line upon line, precept upon precept, until it comes... | |
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