 | Joseph Kraker, Vinnie - 2008 - 214 páginas
...answer God gave turned out to be the right one for you. FOOTPRINTS to* It was Edmund Burke who said, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. " Oliver Cromwell, in arranging for the education of his son, said: "I would have him learn a little... | |
 | Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - 151 páginas
...separated from Common Law thinking or the belief in an 'Ancient Constitution.' When Burke says that "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors," is he not restating what was said by the Briton Calgacus in Tacitus's Agricola (32, 4) — a passage... | |
 | Nancy Henry - 2008 - 115 páginas
...at least in part determined by it. In Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Burke wrote: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."1 While Eliot did not share in Burke 's defense of the aristocracy and lament over the loss... | |
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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. 
