 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 strani
...an inheritable peerage ; and a house of commons' and a .people inheritVOL. I. ..it'. t «/f • 145 ing privileges, franchises and liberties, from a long...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 512 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 590 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we bold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of familv settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 strani
...their ancestors will not look forward to posterity. Besides it is well known to the people of England, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...advantages are obtained, by a state proceeding on these measures, are locked fast in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.... | |
 | 1821 - 362 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...and a sure principle of transmission; without at all exclnding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides the people of England well know, that the...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. orn U secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 strani
...who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, ti w. and M. that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition tree ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 strani
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. as delicate as it is valuable. We are members in a...monarchy ; and we must preserve religiously, the true aro locked fast as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a... | |
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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. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes... 
