 | Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 284 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 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 - Business & Economics - 2003 - 260 pages
...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 - Philosophy - 2004 - 404 pages
...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 - Political Science - 2009 - 258 pages
...'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 - Political Science - 200 pages
...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 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 Nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2006 - 561 pages
...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 - European literature - 2006 - 412 pages
...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 - Business & Economics - 2007 - 218 pages
...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 - History - 2008 - 590 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...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. 
