 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a Constitutional policy, working after the pattern of jnature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Summer School of Catholic Studies (Cambridge, England) - Mysticism - 1925 - 364 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 idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free : but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 538 pages
...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 - Catholic schools - 1921 - 704 pages
...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 - History - 1971 - 68 pages
...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 - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 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...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 - Fiction - 1984 - 280 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...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 Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...inheritance, then modern commentators are on solid ground with it, as Burke's ensuing summary makes clear: The idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...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... | |
 | Karl Mannheim - Social Science - 1993 - 612 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 1989 - 290 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
