 | Summer School of Catholic Studies (Cambridge, England) - 1925 - 364 頁
...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 - 538 頁
...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 - 704 頁
...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 - 68 頁
...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 - 176 頁
...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 - 280 頁
...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 - 400 頁
...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 - 480 頁
...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... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 1989 - 304 頁
...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... | |
 | Jack Lively, Andrew Reeve - 1989 - 324 頁
...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... 
