Carlyle says: "I never knew a clever man who came out of entirely stupid people." James Otis's great qualities "were an inheritance, not an accident, and inheritance from the best blood of old England." Many years ago, when George Ticknor of Boston was a guest of Lady Holland, at the famous Holland House, in London, her ladyship remarked to him, in her not very engaging way:英文原著 · 《James Otis The Pre-Revolutionist》
By the way, G. Jager has brought out in "Kosmos" a chemical sort of pangenesis bearing chiefly on inheritance. (281/7. Several papers by Jager on "Inheritance" were published in the first volume of "Kosmos," 1877.)英文原著 · 《More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume I》
112) [ to mulct them in more money than the land. is worth. The best legal advice they have received is that they should sell their inheritances to white men ] changed to: [ to mulct them in more money than the land is worth. The best legal advice they have received is that they should sell their inheritances to white men.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
Savigny very nearly expressed the truth when he said, somewhat broadly, that "every accessio, for whatever purpose, presupposes nothing else than a relation of juridical [365] succession between the previous and present possessor. For succession does not apply to possession by itself." /1/ And I may add, by way of further explanation, that every relation of juridical succession presupposes either an inheritance or a relation to which, so far as it extends, the analogies of the inheritance may be applied.英文原著 · 《The Common Law》
The child comes into life with the inheritance of the preceding members of the race; and this inheritance is modified by adaptation to the environment. But the child shows also individual variations from the type of the species, and if his own character is not to disappear during the process of adaptation, all self-determined development of energy must be aided in every way and only indirectly influenced by the teacher, who should understand how to combine and emphasise the results of this development.英文原著 · 《The Education of the Child》
We learned no theories about "the dignity of labor," but we were taught to work almost as if it were a religion; to keep at work, expecting nothing else. It was our inheritance, banded down from the outcasts of Eden. And for us, as for them, there was a blessing hidden in the curse. I am glad that I grew up under these wholesome Puritanic influences, as glad as I am that I was born a New Englander; and I surely should have chosen New England for my birthplace before any region under the sun.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Germany and many other European countries have inheritance or estate taxes Germany and many other European countries have inheritance or estate taxes演讲 · 《inequality inevitable ~ TED-Ed Is》
L'm sorry, l have no time for a rich kid who threw away his inheritance on a soccer team电影 · 《In a World (2013)》
and they left me a large inheritance and l used that to travel the world, so l never went to college.电影 · 《In a World (2013)》