 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.  The Theory of the State - Page 427by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Sir Richard Lodge - 1885 - 518 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...remembered, because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return. INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of...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 - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...remembered, because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return. INNOVATION. A SPIRIT of innovation is generally the result of...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 - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...To the civil and religious institutes of the Milesians it applies, as if they sat for the picture. " A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; without... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish * i temper and confined views. People will not look forward...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...remembered, because they require deliberate precautions to be secured against their return. 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.... | |
 | William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 pages
...undermines the springs- of life. See No. 32«. N ISBET^S School of Medicine, 3802. [Proo. xxiv. 21.] A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. BURKE, on the French Revolution, p. 47. 3803. [i'rur. xxv. 11.] A word fitly spoken is like oranges... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; without... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 1821 - 746 pages
...reflection, or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People who never look back wards to their ancestors will not look forward to posterity. Besides it is well... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; without... | |
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