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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... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Página 146
por Edmund Burke - 1811
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Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations

Edward A. Page - 2007 - 218 páginas
...is apposite: People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 páginas
...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...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional...
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The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke - 2008 - 590 páginas
...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...obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims are looked fast as in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional...
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Tennyson's Rapture: Transformation in the Victorian Dramatic Monologue

Cornelia D. J. Pearsall - 2008 - 408 páginas
...asserted in the English Constitution themselves an "entailed inheritance" (italics his), Burke exalts, "Besides, the people of England well know, that the...transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement."6 In seeking to balance the conservation of inheritance, with its commitment to the perpetuation...
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