 | 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
...inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather...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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — Burke. DCXXXVL Education... | |
 | 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 a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look back to their ancestors. Fines and recoveries, like... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. The policy appears tome to be the result of profound reflection ; or rather...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... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 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... | |
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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. 
