 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 páginas
...institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. On the Army f'stimatei. Vol Hi. p. 221. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. Hi. p. 274. You had that action and counteraction which,... | |
 | State Historical Society of Iowa - 1904 - 604 páginas
...public spirit, unless it has a strong and active historical society. We must surely agree with Burke — "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors". Public spirit in any State depends very much upon pride in its past, and no better means has been found... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 páginas
...wisdom without reflec" tion, and above it. A spirit of innovation is " generally the result of a selfish temper and confined " views. People will not look...transmission, " without at all excluding a principle of improve" ment. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures " what it acquires. Whatever advantages are... | |
 | 1905 - 454 páginas
...careful study of them by those who are at interest will be profitable. JAMES BAKNWXLL UEYWABD. "Pcople will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their aneestors." С¡ENEKATIOX I. JOSEPH PENDARVIS s X,,. I), tho Carolina pionce r, left no record, as... | |
 | Herbert Cornelius Andrews - 1906 - 572 páginas
...virtue from your father, ripe, will fall; Study illustrious him, and you have all. — BEN JONSON. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — EDMUND BURKE. EDITOR'S PREFACE. For many years the Hon. Sanford C. Hinsdale of Denver, Colo., was... | |
 | Lawrence Van Alstyne, Charles Burr Ogden - 1907 - 664 páginas
...received from his forefathers. He should be enthused by a study of the past, for, as Burke remarks: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." There is much fascination in the tracing back of ancestral lines, in spite of the many discouragements... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...Uethscmane. — K. É. Chapín. INNOVATION. -A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish mes whereveryou please, and the man who has no faith...religion is the one who hath faith in a nightmare and gho — Burke. It will always do to change for the better. Thomson. IN NS. INSENSIBILITY. The ridiculous... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 páginas
...wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. . . . The French Would it not, my worthy friend, have been wiser to have ^"k1dkfT you thought, what... | |
 | 1911 - 494 páginas
...until the past has been grasped in all its essentials. Edmund Burke aptly phrased this when he wrote: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." Time, with its revolving cycle of events, lies before us and in the ever widening circles we may, if... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 páginas
...people of England well know, that the idea of an inheritance furnished a sure principle of conservatism, and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.' Such a principle of inheritance and transmission, he goes on to say, corresponds to that ' mysterious... | |
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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. 
