 | Jenny Davidson - 2004 - Страниц: 256
...to religious observance is motivated by a belief that human psychology depends on prejudice, which "renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts" (183^111.138). Johnson suggests something very similar in the Rambler when he says that "even [the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Страниц: 718
...not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. Your literary men, and your politicians,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 2006 - Страниц: 469
...not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature." What is this but a commentary on much... | |
 | Janet Todd - 2006 - Страниц: 3
...cherish them because they are prejudices' - and of an individual's path to virtue. 'Prejudice', he wrote, 'renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts.'5 Hume and the philosopher Adam Smith explored the notion of 'pride' as self-esteem: although... | |
 | Edward Stringham - 2007 - Страниц: 718
...do better to avail 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 just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature."18 One of the conservative traditions... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. Your literary men, and your politicians,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - Страниц: 590
...'not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. Your literary men, and your politicians,... | |
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Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's... 
