 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - 354 Seiten
...state of the world, we are too prone to forget the wisdom contained in Burke 's words when he said: "The idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires." (Beflections on the French Revolution.) But the principle of improvement presupposes a norm for discerning... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 Seiten
...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...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a Constitutional policy, working after the pattern of jnature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Summer School of Catholic Studies (Cambridge, England) - 1925 - 364 Seiten
...and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free : but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 538 Seiten
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to {heir ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, '.that the...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ; jvithout^at ajl excluding aprjncipje_£fimprovejnent. ; It leaves acquisition Tree^ but~it~secufes... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1921 - 704 Seiten
...existing in society and war only against its evils. They will start with things as they are. Burke says that "the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure, principle of conservation and a siuv principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
 | Finley - 1971 - 68 Seiten
...Reflections : ' People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission ... In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 Seiten
...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...all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisiton free; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - 280 Seiten
...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...as in a sort of family settlement; grasped as in a land of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive,... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 Seiten
...inheritance, then modern commentators are on solid ground with it, as Burke's ensuing summary makes clear: The idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional policy working after the pattern of Nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit... | |
 | Karl Mannheim - 1993 - 612 Seiten
...rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. ... The people of England well know, that the idea of...without at all excluding a principle of improvement' (ibid., p. 78). 'You [the French] had all those advantages in your ancient states; but you chose to... | |
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Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. 
