 | Edmund Burke - 1925 - 552 pages
...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...among us, essentially differ in these points. They have no respect for the wisdom of others ; but they pay it off by a very full measure of confidence... | |
 | John Stanislaus Zybura - 1926 - 576 pages
...wisdom and 82 Cf. Sheen, lac. cit., p. 182. virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice...prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature." The name of Burke suggests the importance not only of the distinction between confused and distinct... | |
 | 1858 - 48 pages
...minds a sound prejudice may by a sort of instinct supply the place of reason. Burke says of it— " Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not...prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature." AiVhat is true of Prejudice as a trait in man, is still more true of its influence upon Society. Popular... | |
 | Frederick Dreyer - 1979 - 104 pages
...application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue. . . . Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not...Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature."22 Quite apart from any presumed merit or justification, prejudice could exercise an influence... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...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...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. THOMAS PAINE From Rights of Man (The extracts are from Part I, first edition, l79l. and from Part II,... | |
 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pages
...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...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. [P. 183] For Burke "prejudice" is thus a term of integration; it unites reason, motive, and affection,... | |
 | James Chandler - 1984 - 338 pages
...course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. [pp. 346-47] Central as it is, this passage is helpful chiefly as a way of showing what Burke is not... | |
 | Edmund Burke, J. G. A. Pocock - 1987 - 294 pages
...course of wisdom and virtue and does not 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 " The English are, I conceive, misrepresented in a letter published in one of the papers, by a gentleman... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - 386 pages
...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...Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.18 This famous passage states the case for conservatism, but it is cited here because it illuminates... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...developing right habits, so Burke sees duty and subordination as habits that can be learned and then lived. "Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature" (Reflections 183). At the same time, however, Burke has to claim that any emotions and habits he dislikes... | |
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Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit : and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. 
