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" But one of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity,... "
Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Página 26
por Edmund Burke - 1811
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Uday Singh Mehta - 1999 - 250 páginas
...something that has, at least in part, made us who we are and on which we have a collective reliance: One of the first and most leading principles on which...is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors or of what is due to their posterity,...
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Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830

Anne K. Mellor - 2000 - 192 páginas
...model for the state of the nation. As Burke had argued in his Reflections on the Rerolution in Franee: one of the first and most leading principles on which...is, lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors or of what is due to their posterity,...
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Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology

Hilda L. Smith, Berenice A. Carroll - 2000 - 484 páginas
...conviction of the people of England. So far are the people fmm being 'babitually convinced that no evil can be acceptable, either in the act or the permission, to him whose essence is good' 1Page 1401, that the sermons which they hear are to them ahuost as unintelligible as if they were preached...
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Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790–1870: Politics ...

Mary Jean Corbett - 2000 - 228 páginas
...enduring relations among them, the relations that should ensure a Burkean continuity and stability.56 "One of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated," writes Burke in the Reflections, has been put in place lest the temporary possessors and life-renters...
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Democracy: A Reader

Ricardo Blaug, John J. Schwarzmantel - 2000 - 602 páginas
...of human imperfections and infirmities, is to be found. When they are habitually convinced that no evil can be acceptable, either in the act or the permission,...is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity,...
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Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt

Herbert E. Sloan - 2001 - 396 páginas
...of state must also have been struck by Burke's brilliant inversion of his own underlying metaphor. "One of the first and most leading principles on which the commonwealth and the laws are consecrated," Burke explained, going on to deploy the language of inheritance and real property we have seen Jefferson...
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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - 2001 - 502 páginas
...and therefore they are at inexpiable war with all establishments. [pp. 1 28-30] « « « 0 # . . . [O]ne of the first and most leading principles on...is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity,...
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An Imaginative Whig: Reassessing the Life and Thought of Edmund Burke

Ian Crowe - 2005 - 260 páginas
...as mere life-tenants, bound to preserve the value of their inheritance for succeeding generations: one of the first and most leading principles on which...consecrated, is lest the temporary possessors and liferenters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity,...
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Kritische opstellen over verleden, heden en toekomst: kritische opstellen ...

2005 - 358 páginas
...voor het verleden hieraan toe. In zijn Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) zegt hij dat 'one of the first and most leading principles on which...is lest the temporary possessors and life-renters in it, unmindful of what they have received from their ancestors, or of what is due to their posterity,...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 páginas
...mass of human imperfections and infirmities is to be found. When they are habitually convinced that no evil can be acceptable, either in the act or the permission,...all magistrates, civil, ecclesiastical, or military, anything that bears the least resemblance to a proud and lawless domination. But one of the first and...
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