 | 1911 - Страниц: 468
...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... | |
 | Cecil Reeves Harrison, Harry George Harrison - 1914 - Страниц: 172
...thinking of the great social upheaval at the time of the French Revolution, had in mind one danger when he said : — " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors"; whilst a less distinguished writer strikes perhaps a necessary note of warning about a danger on the... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1917 - Страниц: 364
...ii, st. 1. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. BYRON Childe Harold, can. ii, st. 88. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 48. Sweet souls around us watch us still, Press... | |
 | George Eliot - 1999 - Страниц: 418
...continuity: '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 ... the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes XXIH a sure principle of... | |
 | Varadaraja V. Raman - 1998 - Страниц: 398
...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.... | |
 | James W. Vice - 1998 - Страниц: 300
...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... | |
 | M. Leelavathy - 1998 - Страниц: 88
...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 - Страниц: 686
...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... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - 2000 - Страниц: 322
...and above it. 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 a sure principle of... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - Страниц: 389
...people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. RB Sheridan, The Rivals, IV, i ( 1775) 19 People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1 790) 2ii And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard... | |
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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. 
