John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
4398 Edmund Burke 1729-1797 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 4398 |
| AUTHOR: | Edmund Burke (1729–1797) |
| QUOTATION: | The wisdom of our ancestors. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ibid. p. 516. Also in the Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill, 1793. |
| Note 1. Lord Brougham says of Bacon, “He it was who first employed the well-known phrase of ‘the wisdom of our ancestor.’” Sydney Smith: Plymley’s Letters, letter v. Lord Eldon: On Sir Samuel Romilly’s Bill, 1815. Cicero: De Legibus, ii. 2, 3. [back] |