| Edward Stringham - 2007 - Страниц: 718
...because they are prejudices: and the longer they have lasted, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to live and trade each on his own private stock of...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages... Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through... | |
| Kingsley Browne - 2007 - Страниц: 378
...spurious analogies, such rhetorical devices do not advance the goals of reasoned argument. 22 Conclusion We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. . . . Your literary... | |
| Jason Peters - 2007 - Страниц: 365
...to the mobility of the intelligent. Burke's famous defense of prejudice rested on a similar basis. "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason," he wrote in Reflections, "because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals... | |
| Jane Hodson - 2007 - Страниц: 244
...did not believe that each individual should rely only on the exercise of his own reason. He writes: '[w]e are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his 37 Godwin, 2nd edn Political Justice, vol. 1, p. 72. own private stock of reason'.18 Sense, feeling... | |
| Thomas Chaimowicz - 2011 - Страниц: 151
...this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess, that we are generally men of untaught feelings . . . We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages. It is the spirit of common law that is embodied in the English constitution: "By a constitutional... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...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...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...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...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... | |
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