 | 1888 - 576 sivua
...middleaged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the st^te, in what we imj rove we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 sivua
...hand which cannot let go what it holds. 1. 33. working after the pattern of nature, cf. p. 37, 1. 11, "by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state. " The adoption of the hereditary principle is an application of natural law to politics. The continuity... | |
 | 1891 - 220 sivua
...race, the whole, at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on these principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 sivua
...the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. — BURKE. We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 sivua
...race, the whole at one time is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the m<thod jf nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are neTer wholly new ; in what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1898 - 476 sivua
...middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct_of_the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never... | |
 | 1900 - 570 sivua
...middleaged, or young, but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what wi retain we are never wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner, and on those principles, to our... | |
 | David Loyd Pulliam - 1901 - 188 sivua
...the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wnolly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on these principles to our forefathers, we are guided... | |
 | William Holden Hutton - 1903 - 414 sivua
...the same. It may be said of the English character, as Burke said of the English constitution, that " in what we improve we are never wholly new, in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete."1 Liberty and honour : those are the achievements on which most Englishmen would still pride... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 616 sivua
...race, the whole at one time is never old or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual...new, in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete,' and it has been ' our old settled maxim never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity.' Old local... | |
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Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new ; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. 
