 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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...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 - 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... | |
 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...wantonness of folly, may in an instant destroy it by removing a girdle of its bark. It has been said, that a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views.* 'Perhaps this is pressing the reasoning too far. It is more often the result of a strong imagination... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1828 - 182 pages
...and moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on. 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 it comes... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...not, according to the charity of those into whose hands it shall happen to fall.— Sterne. DCXXXV. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Burke. DCXXXVL Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection, must... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 446 pages
...statutes and common assurances, ought to induce us to pause before their destruction is determined upon. " A spirit of innovation is generally the result of...will not look forward to posterity, who never look back to their ancestors. Fines and recoveries, like a power once gained in mechanies, may be applied... | |
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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. 
