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Lectures on the History of the French Revolution - Page 184
by William Smyth - 1855
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Realism and Romance: And Other Essays

Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 pages
...which Burke with equal courage and candour justifies what the Revolutionists called mere prejudices : ' 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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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...agree with, resemble. 1. 2. immediate, present. 1. 4. hold way with, to equal. For the metaphor, cf. "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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Counsel Upon the Reading of Books

Henry Morse Stephens - 1900 - 616 pages
...mechanically." Or to quote the noble passage in Burke which suggested this utterance of Morley : " 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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“La” formation du radicalisme philosophique: la Révolution et la doctrine de ...

Elie Halévy - 1900 - 454 pages
...despising every thing that belongcd to jou. You set up your trailc without a capital. — p. 167 : W«: are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his...private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in C!irh man is small, und that the individiials wmild do bett!s to avail themselves of...
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Writings and Speeches, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1901 - 588 pages
...the longer they hare 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...private stock of reason ; because we suspect that the htock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general...
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La formation du radicalisme philosophique ...

Élie Halévy - 1901 - 464 pages
...by despising every thing that belonged to you. You set up your trade without a capital. — p. 16" : We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, und that the individuals would do better to avail thémselves of the...
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La formation du radicalisme philosophique ...

Élie Halévy - 1901 - 404 pages
...belonged to you. You set up your trade without a capital. — p. lt17 : We are afraid to put men lo live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that thU stock in each man is small, und that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the...
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Hume, Volume 7

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...morals of considering the individual apart from the experience of the race. " We are afraid," he says, " 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...
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The Advancement of Learning, Book I, Book 1

Francis Bacon - 1904 - 216 pages
...Present. 14 1. Countervail. Outweigh. 14 2. Hold way. Keep pace. Selby compares a sentence from 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...
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The French Revolution: Chapters from the Author's History of England During ...

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1904 - 616 pages
...Emperor not become as fatal to the forme* v.'as introducing into the Aus- as the latter. Correspondence, each on his own private stock of reason because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that tho individuals would do better to avail themselves of the...
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