 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 258 pàgines
...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...proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of familv settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pàgines
...have an inheritable; crown ; an inheritable peerage; and a house of commons -and a people inheritVOL. i. •.-:,- \ -..- L 145 ing privileges, franchises...family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain forever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 pàgines
...their ancestors will not look forward to posterity. Besides it is well known to the people of England, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...advantages are obtained, by a state proceeding on these measures, are locked fast in a sort of family settlement, grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever.... | |
 | 1821 - 362 pàgines
...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...and a sure principle of transmission; without at all exclnding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free ; but it secures what it acquires.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pàgines
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. orn U secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pàgines
...who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, ti w. and M. that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle...a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition tree ; but it secures what it acquires. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pàgines
...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. as delicate as it is valuable. We are members in a...monarchy ; and we must preserve religiously, the true aro locked fast as in a sort of family settlement ; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a... | |
 | John Singleton Copley (1st baron Lyndhurst.) - 1839 - 150 pàgines
...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 is a sure principle of Conservation, and a sure principle of Transmission, without at all excluding... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look back to their ancestors. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...acquisition free, but it secures what it acquires. 1 Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture... | |
 | John Centlivres Chase - 1843 - 376 pàgines
...specially belonging to the people, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance...improvement, It leaves acquisition free, but it secures all it acquires. Such is the language of Burke, who, speaking of two truly great lawyers Coke and Blackstone,... | |
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Besides, the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. 
