 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...INNOVATION. 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. i It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until it comes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...INNOVATION. 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. * * * * It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never...acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 588 pages
...the picture. " A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pages
...above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish * i temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper anijl confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. It cannot at this time be too often repeated ; line upon line ; precept upon precept ; until it comes... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never...and a sure principle of transmission; without at all exclnding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires.... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 pages
...their ancestors will not look forward to posterity. Besides it is well known to the people of England, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...acquisition free, but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained, by a state proceeding on these measures, are locked fast in a sort... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never...acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1828 - 182 pages
...INNOVATION. 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. It cannot at this time be too often repeated, line upon line, precept upon precept, until it comes... | |
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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. 
