 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 דפים
...us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. CiCERO, Philippics, xiv, 12. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. BURKE, Reflections on Revolution in France. p. 48. Nature has lent us life at interest, like money,... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 דפים
...of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. On the Army Estimates. Vol Hi. p. 221. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Eeflectiout on the Eevolution in France. Vol. Hi. p. 274. You had that action and counteraction which,... | |
 | William Nelson - 1902 - 618 דפים
...Bonhamtown, married Mary Taylor, of Freehold, a sister of the eminent Edward Taylor, MD He died in 1850. "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." — Burke. THOMAS W. AUMACK. One of the leading and representative farmers of Raritan township, Monmouth... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
 | 1905 - 454 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 דפים
...profound reflection,—or rather the happy effect of following Nature, which is wisdom without reflection and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 דפים
...God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Uethscmane. — K. É. Chapín. INNOVATION. tious in not wearing black.— .SeWen. Open biographical...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... | |
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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. 
