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" Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's... "
The Anti-Gallican, Or, Standard of British Loyalty, Religion, and Liberty - Page 103
1803
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of...
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - 1852 - 608 pages
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency...leave the man, hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man, hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...reason, bus a motive t: give action to that reason, and an affection wn.ch will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a stcadv courte of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave thf man, hesitating in the moment of decision,...
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Lectures on the History of the French Revolution, Volume 2

William Smyth - 1855 - 590 pages
...reason, has a motive to give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit ; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volume 20

1858 - 604 pages
...reason has a motive tq give action to that reason, and an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 586 pages
...enhyhtenul ami litx>ral to one set of men in England, it may be true. It is not generally so. manence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind ill a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and docs not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision,...
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The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1869 - 572 pages
...enlightened and liberal to one set of men in England, it may be true. It is not generally so. manence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 7; Volume 13

1870 - 764 pages
...way parallel to Burke's memorable exaltation over reason of prejudice. " Prejudice," said Burke, " previously engages the mind in a steady course of...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts ; through just prejudice his...
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