 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. This policy appears to me ion as a primary object of patriotic desire. Is there... Greenlaw Edwin Almiron" Edwin Almiron Greenlaw( will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people... | |
 | Sir Archibald Strong - English literature - 1921 - 428 pages
...of his life Burke wrote his Letter to a Noble Lord, 1 Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts. 2 Of . ' A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views.' ' He who gave our nature to be perfected by our virtue, willed also the necessary means of its perfection.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 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... | |
 | James Boyd White - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1985 - 400 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... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - Fiction - 1984 - 280 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...spirit of innovation is generally the result of a self1sh temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward... | |
 | James Chandler - Poetry - 1984 - 338 pages
...of comment to second-nature thinking as soon as Burke goes on to add that "this policy appears to me to be the result of profound reflection, — or rather...which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. " But it would be quibbling to insist on the one rubric over the other. Insofar as Burkean "tradition"... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 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... | |
 | Jeffrey Cane Robinson - Poetry - 1987 - 228 pages
...exert over Wordsworth a calming and restorative influence; and the poet experienced what Burke called "the happy effect of following Nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it." 5 A revolutionary age and temperament is characterized by disruptions and passions; Burke ascribed... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - English prose literature - 1989 - 276 pages
...Burke, whose social views rest on a religious foundation very different from Hume's, speaks like Hume of "the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it" (Reflections 119). A common investment in perpetuating the social order explains the remarkable similarity... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...was skeptical of the claims of such innovators, who were often the vanguard to radical revolution: "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."45 Burke claimed that... | |
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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. 
