...'Address To The 166th Ohio Regiment," 22 August 1864, Complete Works 10: 203. 70. Compare to Edmund Burke: "[T]he people of England well know, that the idea...without at all excluding a principle of improvement." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 45. 1 thank Norman Jacobson for pointing out to me that Lincoln...

...to make the effort to bridge the miles. Irish Eyes Are Smiling St. Patrick's Day and Irish History People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. — EDMUND BURKE The Irish know about hope. Hope for a better life caused many of them to immigrate...

...10-31 To Aunt Aline, who told me about my mother's family, and to Grandma Nannie, whom I never met. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke 1729-1797 Nannie, Part III in the trilogy of the story of Boo Gretzel, tells how a man...

...Event, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien (London: Penguin, 1968; orig. pub. 1790). See, for example, pp. 119-21: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never...without at all excluding a principle of improvement. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,...

...environmental and human resources in the absence of reciprocity. Again, a remark from Burke is apposite: People will not look forward to posterity, who never...inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what...

...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...

...Rationalism, 58. 32. Edmund Burke, who thought about this matter a good deal, commented that "[pjeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 119. 33. See Bromwich, Choice of Inheritance, 43-78. 34. The...

...of his will in the future. That, as I have suggested, is the insight underlying Burke's remark that "people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."10 Resistance to memory comes not just from a certain presentism but also, in a number of...

...maleness is closely aligned with a larger call for nostalgic cultural reformation; he insists that "people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors" (83). He believes that post-Revolutionary England must recapture the spirit of an earlier civilization...

...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...