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
| Thomas Sowell - History - 2002 - 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."4 By reason, Burke did not mean simply the written words of notable individuals but the whole... | |
| F. H. Buckley - Law - 2005 - 260 pages
...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of...prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the general wisdom which prevails in them.'9 With a political philosophy that rests on sentiment, what... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 2015 - 311 pages
...reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." "I remember an old scholastic aphorism which says, 'that the man who lives wholly detached from others... | |
| David M. Ricci - History - 2004 - 326 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." 118 This thought was expressed colloquially by House Majority Leader Dick Armey in his The Freedom... | |
| Keith Negus, Michael J Pickering - Social Science - 2004 - 192 pages
...outlook, it would also deprive any individual of the resources of tradition. He advised people 'to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages'. From this has extended a highly restricted definition of both tradition and culture. It is consonant... | |
| W. Wesley McDonald - Political Science - 2004 - 260 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." Prejudice, moreover, "is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a... | |
| Ian Crowe - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 260 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." The wisdom of experience is of particular importance for Burke because it embodies changes in the characters... | |
| Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital 01" nations and of ages. Many of our men of speculation,...they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, wich the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked... | |
| Cass R. Sunstein - Law - 2006 - 288 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. 42 Burke's most important claim opposes the small size of each "private stock of reason" to the "general... | |
| Rick Parrish - Law - 2006 - 176 pages
...[conservatives] 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" 140 represented by traditional prejudices (broadly construed). Those who reject the combined wisdom... | |
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