 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - Broj stranica: 552
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...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... | |
 | 1922 - Broj stranica: 444
...Burke's * ' A Short History of the British Commonwealth,' by Ramsay Muir, vol. i. pp. 71, 72. phrase, ' People will not look forward to posterity who never look ' back to their ancestors.' For these reasons there is a fair case for giving to the existing body of peers power to nominate a... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - Broj stranica: 176
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...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... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - Broj stranica: 400
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea 205 of inheritance... | |
 | Marilyn Butler - 1984 - Broj stranica: 280
...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 self1sh temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward... | |
 | Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - 1987 - Broj stranica: 480
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...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... | |
 | James W. Skillen, Rockne M. McCarthy - 1991 - Broj stranica: 448
...reflection, or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...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... | |
 | Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - Broj stranica: 292
...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...will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."45 Burke claimed that compared with the French, the temperament of the... | |
 | Abner Shimony - 1993 - Broj stranica: 358
...relate it clearly to the currently accepted body of knowledge. On the whole Burke's maxim is apropos: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look back to their ancestors" (Reflections on the Revolution in France). a = 2 was proposed by Priestley and D. Bernoulli (Whittaker... | |
 | Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - 1996 - Broj stranica: 356
...reflection; or rather the happy effect of following nature, which is wisdom without reflection, and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the...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... | |
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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. 
