 | 1908 - 260 pages
...Plantagenet, Jacob Broom, concerning whom we speak in this sketch. Edmund Burke says in his "Reflections," "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." With the Plantagenets it was a cherished axiom, maintained by their descendants, that "An illiterate... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 pages
...People will not look forward to posterlly, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, foe people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance...furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure Pf inciple of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
 | Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler, Franklin Lafayette Riley, James Curtis Ballagh, John Bell Henneman, Edwin Mims, Samuel Chiles Mitchell, Walter Lynwood Fleming - 1909 - 818 pages
...abilities, and to forget the significant saying of the greatest of the English political philosophers, that "people will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." But the impartial' scientist, regardless of political sentiment, vouches for the value of persistent... | |
 | Tower Genealogical Society - 1909 - 428 pages
...obtained." But genealogy is a nobler thing. Its justification we may find in the words of Edmund Burke: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Genealogy reinstates for our benefit the past out of which we have come that it may function helpfully... | |
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - 300 pages
...winds of heaven" (R: 109). People need something more than a "sense of present convenience" (R: 100). "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors" (R: 38). By "prejudice" Burke means "ancient opinions and rules of life"(R: 89). These substitute for... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. 1774 Reflections on the Revolutlon in France s the secret of success. History is more or less bunk. FORD Lena Guilbert 1870-1916 35 1775 Reflectlons on the Revolution in France Those who attempt to level never equalize. 1776 Reflections... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. RB Sheridan, The Rivals, IV, i ( 1775) 19 People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1 790) 2ii And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard... | |
 | James H. Toner - 240 pages
...for moral tradition.25 Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France put it this way: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." The historical amnesiac will invariably be a moral illiterate; that is, those who have not read history... | |
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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. 
