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The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 110
by Edmund Burke - 1839
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and ages. Many of our mtn of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices,...seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise 10 алtinue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than и castaway the coat of prejudice and leave...
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The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the ..., Volume 1

John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...because \ve 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 of ages. — £urk& CCCCLXI. Similar Virtues and Vices. — People will despise their 'own virtues, and censure...
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The New Englander, Volume 23

Criticism - 1864 - 752 pages
...because we suspect that the 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 of ages." By our definition of orthodoxy, we cannot require a man to feel bound to the dictates of any particular...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...because wo suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of...our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudice», employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1855 - 632 pages
...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 of ages_ Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general / prej udices, employ their sagacity...
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Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Volume 2

William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...because we suspect that the 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 of agesMany of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...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 of ages. — Burkt. CCLXXVIL A man who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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 of ages. — Burke. CCLXXVIL A man who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...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 of Ages. , — Sir W. Drummond. TTE that will not Reason is a Bigot, he that cannot Reason is a Fool, and he...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 20

1858 - 604 pages
...because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of...think it more wise to continue the prejudice with the reasons involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked reason;...
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