 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. Besides, the people of England -well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure ^'principle...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1807 - 512 pages
...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...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...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...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1814 - 258 pages
...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...proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of familv settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure -principle...constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same manner in which we... | |
 | Robert Huish - Great Britain - 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...advantages are obtained, by a state proceeding on these measures, are locked fast in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 362 pages
...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...and a sure principle of transmission; without at all exclnding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires.... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
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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. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes... 
