 | George Unwin - 1904 - 308 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 decay, fall, renovation and progression.' However admirable for practical purposes may be the stability ensured by this method, there can be... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 sivua
...further improvement. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. In what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." "What is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 sivua
...human race ' of which the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged or young, but in a condition of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression....in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.' 2 The Royalist of 1660 might well think that he held an incontrovertible and inexpugnable position.... | |
 | 1908 - 388 sivua
...; here is organic process ; here is what the past unfolded ; here lies evolutionary expectation. " In what we improve, we are never wholly new ; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete" (Burke). We believe that the English Church may still suffice. Only the English Church must be reformed.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 sivua
...incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or mi Jdlbaged, or young, but V P+ — Burke. The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. — Under it, in the wide... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 sivua
...incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or mi.bi h aged, or young, but oubled with but one devil ; the 'idle man by a thousand.— Spanish. Proverb. Sloth make — Burke. The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. — Under it, in the wide... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1911 - 654 sivua
...middleaged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression....new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." ' This is a majestic conception. But, after all, the practical question at issue is — how much of... | |
 | 1911 - 540 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....in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.' To Burke and his School this was the conclusion of the whole matter. But now the logic of facts forces... | |
 | John Holland Rose - 1912 - 646 sivua
...middleaged, or young, but in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenour of perpetual decay, fall, renovation and progression....wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete."1 This is a majestic conception. But, after all, the practical question at issue is — how... | |
 | Daniel J. MacDonald - 1912 - 160 sivua
...excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. . . . By preserving the method of nature in the conduct...; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." True, progress in all the arts and sciences requires a certain readiness to experiment with the unknown... | |
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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. 
