 | 1892 - 680 páginas
...their own good pleasure. — Lange. — 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. — Burke. — It is a dangerous presumption to make innovations if but in the circumstances of God's... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...never throw stones. Pr. People who never have any time are those who do least. I.ichtenberg. (?) 20 ngora. 15 La vie des héros a enrichi l'histoire, et l'histoire a embelli les action Burke. People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 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 to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes-... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 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 to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 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 to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1896 - 344 páginas
...virtne. f No wise man runs into heedless danger. I No one who runs into heedless danger is a wise man. / People will not look forward to posterity who never look ) backward to their ancestors. j People never look backward to their ancestors who will not look forward to posterity. ( Whatever... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...Night II. L. 131. ANCESTBT. The wisdom of our ancestors. e. BACON — (According to Lord Brougham. ) and of Rome. H. ADDISON — Cato. Act I. Sc. 1. So in the Libyan fable it is told That /. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. Page 48. Some decent regulated pre-eminence,... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1897 - 476 páginas
...in which men would not grow the wiser by reading them." — WE LECKY. E. SOME APOTHEGMS OF BURKE. " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.'1 " He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 558 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 to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 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 to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes... | |
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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. 
