 | 1908 - 260 דפים
...Plantagenet, Jacob Broom, concerning whom we speak in this sketch. Edmund Burke says in his "Reflections," "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." With the Plantagenets it was a cherished axiom, maintained by their descendants, that "An illiterate... | |
 | 1911 - 494 דפים
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 498 דפים
...People will not look forward to posterlly, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, foe people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance...furnishes a sure principle of conservation, and a sure Pf inciple of transmission ; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition... | |
 | 1928 - 84 דפים
...belief in fewer words in criticizing the radical French attempt at completely breaking with the past: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." As during the past hundred years, and more, Americans have been acting on Mr. Webster's advice, they... | |
 | M. Leelavathy - 1998 - 88 דפים
...meant to strengthen the roots of faith in the country's hoary past. In the words of Edmund Burke," People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors". When Gandhiji looked backward to the ancient Indian sages and found the necessary guidelines for the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 דפים
...of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. 1774 Reflections on the Revolutlon in France s the secret of success. History is more or less bunk. FORD Lena Guilbert 1870-1916 35 1775 Reflectlons on the Revolution in France Those who attempt to level never equalize. 1776 Reflections... | |
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - 300 דפים
...winds of heaven" (R: 109). People need something more than a "sense of present convenience" (R: 100). "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors" (R: 38). By "prejudice" Burke means "ancient opinions and rules of life"(R: 89). These substitute for... | |
 | Varadaraja V. Raman - 1998 - 398 דפים
...interesting in so far as they remind us of the continuity of history. Indeed as Edmund Burke remarked, "people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." For, those who recognize their past are often inspired to do something for those that will come after.... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - 2000 - 432 דפים
...system according to a patrilineal model of inherited wealth, backed up by organic notions of continuity: the people of England well know, that the idea of...conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; . . . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in... | |
 | James H. Toner - 240 דפים
...for moral tradition.25 Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France put it this way: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." The historical amnesiac will invariably be a moral illiterate; that is, those who have not read history... | |
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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. 
