 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 pagina’s
...monarchy according to a patrilineal model of inherited wealth, backed up by organic notions of continuity: The people of England well know, that the idea of...principle of conservation, and a sure principle of improvement. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast... | |
 | Edward A. Page - 2007 - 218 pagina’s
...is apposite: People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pagina’s
...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...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 pagina’s
...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...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional... | |
 | Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - 2008 - 408 pagina’s
...asserted in the English Constitution themselves an "entailed inheritance" (italics his), Burke exalts, "Besides, the people of England well know, that the...transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement."6 In seeking to balance the conservation of inheritance, with its commitment to the perpetuation... | |
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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... 
