 | William Holden Hutton - 1903 - 414 pages
...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 pages
...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 wholly obsolete,' and it has been ' our old settled maxim never entirely nor at once to depart from antiquity.'... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...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 wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner " and on those principles to our forefathers, we are " guided... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1906 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | 1908 - 388 pages
...; 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...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 wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner, and on those principles, to our forefathers, we are guided, not... | |
 | Clement Boulton Roylance Kent - 1908 - 512 pages
...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 wholly obsolete.' 2 The Royalist of 1660 might well think that he held an incontrovertible and inexpugnable... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1909 - 468 pages
...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 wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1909 - 470 pages
...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 wholly obsolete. By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not... | |
 | 1911 - 540 pages
...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 wholly obsolete.' To Burke and his School this was the conclusion of the whole matter. But now the logic of... | |
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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. 
