...renovation, and progression. By aligning themselves with nature in this way, the English have prospered: "in what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete" (120). Burke distinguishes more clearly between change and reform in his Letter to a Noble Lord (1796):...

...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 wholly obsolete. Dit is het credo van een conservatief denker: in de geordende wereld waar men zich als Engelsman mee...

...according to the plans of'sophisters'. 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' (1989: 84). Through his advocacy of an organic model of social change and self-correction, Burke has...

...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 wholly obsolete.1'' Through constitutional changes made from generation to generation the "chain and continuity"...

...perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preservation of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never obsolete ... In this choice of inheritance [as our philosophical analogy] we have given to our frame...

...to the plans ot 'sophisrers'. Thus, 'by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the srare, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we rerain, we are never wholly obsolere' (1989: 84). Thtough his advocacy ot an organic model of social...

...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;...analogy. In this choice of inheritance we have given to 27. * 1 W. and M. our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution...

...writes admiringly about the adaptability of the constitutional system that had emerged in England: "In what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete." Faithfulness to a cultural heritage involves rejuvenation and revision. In the words of Croce, "Everything...

...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 wholly obsolete.41 For Burke civil society is organic, a creation of man's corporate wisdom and power, working...

...backward to their ancestors." "Thus, by preserving the [organic] 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." "Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and...