 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.  Science - Page 348edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Jacob Chapman - 1886 - 228 pages
...BY REV. JACOB CHAPMAN OF EXETER, NH "Learn the past, and you will know the future." — Confucius. " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to ¿heir ancestors." — Burke. EXETER, N. H Wl PRINTED BY THE EXETER GAZETTE STEAM 1886. /PS1-5 о INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle - 1889 - 638 pages
...the virtues of our ancestry, and to do honor to the memory of our fathers. Burke has well said : " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." But, aside from the filial duty so becoming in itself, we may strengthen our hands and encourage our... | |
 | Dayaran Gidumal Shahani - 1889 - 472 pages
...are " not wholly new " just as we should see that "in what we retain we are not wholly obsolete," for "people will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors " ; that, therefore, upon the body and stock of our inheritance we should not •" inoculate any scion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pages
...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined jviews. People 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 furnishes a sure principle of... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...INNOVATION. SPIRIT OF. 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. Burke. INSTINCT. DEFINITIONS OF. An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of... | |
 | 1892 - 680 pages
...— Lange. — 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. — Burke. — It is a dangerous presumption to make innovations if but in the circumstances of God's... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1896 - 344 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...never come 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... | |
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