 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 110by Edmund Burke - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 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 nations and of ages. — Burke. Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth. — Warburton. Sound and... | |
 | Quotations - 1897 - 308 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 soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations ; these incantations are beautiful... | |
 | John Stuart Mackenzie - Ethics - 1897 - 484 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 Sometimes, indeed, it is a highly artificial thing, brought into being by the accidental circumstances... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1898 - 478 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...exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity 11 to discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, (and they seldom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 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. 1. 5. And as for, etc., as for the ways in which it is declared that learning indirectly... | |
 | Elie Halévy - France - 1900 - 454 pages
...because we suspect that this stock in C!irh man is small, und that the individiials wmild do bett!s to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages. 16. IhUl., p. 167 : Burkc continue: because prejudice, with ils reason, has a motive to give action... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1901 - 160 pages
...certain awe of his own, as if they were aged instructors. They may in the end prove wiser than he." Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding...seek, and they seldom fail, they think it more wise xcv SELF-LOVE XCVI PREJUDICES XCVII MUSIC :o continue the prejudice, with the reason involved, than... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nationsi and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead...exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to dis- * * cover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. If they find what they seek, and they seldom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1904 - 220 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.' 14 3. Those particular seducements. Bacon has been arguing from analogy (12 11-24) and appealing to... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 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...ages. " Many of our men of speculation, instead of ex" ploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity to " discover the latent wisdom which prevails... | |
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