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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 of... "
The Works of Edmund Burke - Page 110
by Edmund Burke - 1839
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1864 - 588 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...our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prej udices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 23

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1864 - 796 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.'1 By our definition of orthodoxy, we cannot require a man to feel bound to the dictates of any...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 36

1879 - 736 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/' But because he discerned this, he regarded the effort of Protestantism to throw individuals back upon...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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. THE difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the objects seen. All manners take...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain ...

Edmund Burke - France - 1872 - 244 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...of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of explodmg general prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the latent wisdom, which prevails in...
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Burke

John Morley - Great Britain - 1879 - 236 pages
...in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to availlhemselves of the generaTbant and capital of nations and of ages. Many of our men...prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover^ the latmnt~wisdom~ which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, and they seldom fail, they think...
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The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte

Edward Caird - 1885 - 284 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." The truth expressed in these words was seen as clearly by Comte as by Burke. And because he saw it,...
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Truths illustrated by great authors [ed. by W. White].

Truths - 1885 - 572 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. . — La Rochefoucauld. HE is not a reasonable Man who by chance stumbles upon Reason, but he who derives...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 5

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1891 - 640 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...discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If thev find what they seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise to continue the prejudice with...
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A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 6

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1893 - 604 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...think it more wise to continue the prejudice with the reason.involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice and to leave nothing but the naked reason,...
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