 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 2003 - 284 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 idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but... | |
 | Joel Jay Kassiola - 2003 - 260 頁
...that what he calls an "entailed inheritance" provides "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."" Burke prefers wisdom to reason because the former conserves the latter designs, and in designing wisdom,... | |
 | Domenico Losurdo - 2004 - 404 頁
...France to the tranquil course of "nature," or that union of nature and history which is inheritance. Inheritance "furnishes a sure principle of conservation...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."8 It needs to be added, however, that if these are the beginnings, then as an ideological... | |
 | Brian Weiner - 2009 - 258 頁
...'Address To The 166th Ohio Regiment," 22 August 1864, Complete Works 10: 203. 70. Compare to Edmund Burke: "[T]he people of England well know, that the idea...without at all excluding a principle of improvement." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 45. 1 thank Norman Jacobson for pointing out to me that Lincoln... | |
 | Peter Viereck - 200 頁
...and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. . . . Inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. ... In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 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 forever. By a constitutional policy working after the pattern of Nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 561 頁
...pp. 119-21: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...without at all excluding a principle of improvement. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 頁
...monarchy 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...principle of conservation, and a sure principle of improvement. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast... | |
 | Edward A. Page - 2007 - 218 頁
...is apposite: People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 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...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional... | |
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Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. 
