 | Reinhard Bendix - 386 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... | |
 | David Bloor - 1991 - 215 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 virtues his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his... | |
 | Joseph Mali - 2002 - 296 pages
...will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engaged the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue,...moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. 62 Burke's definition of the English Common Law as a prejudicial 'wisdom without reflection, and above... | |
 | J. A. I. Champion - 1992 - 296 pages
...for Burke that tradition or 'prejudice' was essential to the stability of political and social order, 'it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue . . . Through just prejudice . . . duty becomes part of ... nature'. For Burke religion and the established... | |
 | 1993 - 374 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... | |
 | 1993 - 432 pages
...the inclination to underrate ideological motives, and so forth). 35. "Prejudice," Edmund Burke wrote, "engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue." And Hippolyte Adolphe Taine: "Prejudice is a kind of reason which is ignorant of itself." 36. Adam Ulam... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...speculations." If we have so chosen, we will look in a crisis to the instant mandate of prejudice: "Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency;...and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment ol decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 pages
...context, a bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials. PREJUDICES AND CONCLUSIONS Prejudice engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and...leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision. . . . Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit. —Edmund Burke102 It may now be useful to reconsider... | |
 | Jerry Z. Muller - 1997 - 476 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1997 - 720 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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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... 
