| David Loyd Pulliam - Constitutional conventions - 1901 - 188 pages
...will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes...acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state of proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a... | |
| T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
..." views. People will not look forward to posterity " who never look backward to their ancestors. " Besides, the people of England well know that the...transmission, " without at all excluding a principle of improve" ment. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures " what it acquires. Whatever advantages are... | |
| Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - Great Britain - 1908 - 512 pages
...people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnished a sure principle of conservatism, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.' Such a principle of inheritance and transmission, he goes on to say, corresponds to that ' mysterious... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 458 pages
...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...sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mort1 1 W. and M. main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we... | |
| Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1909 - 470 pages
...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...sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mort1 i W. and M. main for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 498 pages
...People will not look forward to posterlly, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, foe people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance...furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure Pf inciple of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...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...transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of government. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1912 - 286 pages
...the idea of inheritance which pervades them, and which "furnishes a sure principle of conservatism and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement." As they have been transmitted by former generations with the estates so they will pass from those who... | |
| Lilian Beeson Brownfield - English literature - 1904 - 160 pages
...forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England will know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure...state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as is a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy,... | |
| Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - Church and state - 1922 - 354 pages
...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... | |
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