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 | James W. Vice - History - 1998 - 304 pages
...against "metaphysics," Burke was a friend to reasoning properly conceived as a collective enterprise. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
 | James W. Vice - History - 1998 - 300 pages
...Burke was a friend to reasoning properly conceived as a collective enterprise. We are afraid 10 pui men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this s10ck in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the... | |
 | Henry Claridge - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 716 pages
...explain or 'adjust' it (from within or without) . The defenders of such a society could say with Burke: We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
 | Brad R. Roth - Law - 1999 - 476 pages
...are more to be cherished "the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed". We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
 | Phillip G. Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 324 pages
...or alienated calculation on the part of solipsistic and self-interested individuals — persons left "to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason" as Edmund Burke put it — but a more communal kind of prudence, one that respects individual autonomy... | |
 | Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 776 pages
...depravity of human nature. Reaction became philosophized on 1 November 179o, with Burke's Reflections. 'We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason,' he declared, 'because we suspect that this stock in each man is small . . . Prejudice is of ready application... | |
 | G. W. Smith - Political Science - 2002 - 528 pages
...person's understanding. Conservatives are likely to repudiate that as the arrogance of individualism: We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...suspect that the 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.58... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2001 - 502 pages
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
 | Bryan G. Norton - Science - 2003 - 568 pages
...In our practical philosophy, of politics and of life, we are reverting to the words of Edmund Burke: "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
 | Thomas Sowell - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...excogitation, then "a very small part is gained in the closet," according to Hamilton.3 In Burke's words: "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...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... | |
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