 | Arthur Twining Hadley - 1913 - Страниц: 168
...our practical philosophy, of politics and of life, we are reverting to the words of Edmund Burke : "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their... | |
 | John MacCunn - 1913 - Страниц: 290
...1782. * Reflections. of any two men living.' J In the second he makes the characteristic confession : ' We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; . . . individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler - 1914 - Страниц: 184
...could not stand alone unaided. 1 Burke, Works, vol. iv. p. 407. a Ibid. p. 200. CORPORATE WISDOM 49 " We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own privatestock of reason ; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, William Bishop Owen - 1910 - Страниц: 464
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.... | |
 | Henry Holt - 1917 - Страниц: 486
...value of tradition, and strove to keep it a vital power in national life. "We are afraid," he says, "to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; . . . individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and... | |
 | Michael W. Spicer - 1995 - Страниц: 138
...the ideas of liberty, which were understood long before we were born" (97). He further suggested that "we are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals... | |
 | Charles W. Dunn, J. David Woodard - 1996 - Страниц: 212
...in that country. He found human reason puny compared with the traditions established by providence: "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...do better to avail themselves of the general bank of capital of nations and ages."12 Clinton Rossiter affirms the indispensability and sanctity of inherited... | |
 | James Schmidt - 1996 - Страниц: 582
...and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
 | Larry May, Jerome Kohn - 1996 - Страниц: 414
..."tradition" or "practice" a similar sense of being joined with others rather than (to quote Burke) putting men "to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason,"44 but the difference of emphasis is significant, as we shall see. Another respect in which... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - 1997 - Страниц: 478
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. (RF, 183; italics mine) In developing his case for a society based on conscious and collective... | |
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We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and... 
