| Karl Mannheim - 1993 - 612 頁
...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 - 290 頁
...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 - 374 頁
...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 - 138 頁
...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 - 356 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... | |
| Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 頁
...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 - 418 頁
...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 - 322 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... | |
| Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 頁
...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... | |
| Mary Jean Corbett - 2000 - 242 頁
...family, property, and civil society as immemorial and indissoluble.5 Burke's concern here is to furnish "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle...without at all excluding a principle of improvement" (29); while he does not rule out political change and economic expansion, the two watchwords of the... | |
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