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Counsel Upon the Reading of Books - Page 166
edited by - 1900 - 306 pages
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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...general bank and capital of nations and of ages.— Surke. CCLXXVII. A man who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...and the longer they havelasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...general bank and capital of nations and of ages.— Burke. CCLXXVII. A man who publishes his works in a volume, has an infinite advantage over one who...
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Metaphysical Inquiry Into Method, Objects, and Result of Ancient and Modern ...

Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 232 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...general bank and capital of nations and of ages."* Though the foregoing extract may be a little in the extreme, yet every practical politician must be...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. rva 0 the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1835 - 652 pages
...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. air uA the stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...men to live and trade each on liis o»n private stock of reason, because we suspect that ibe slock in each man is small, and that the individuals would...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and ages. Many of our mtn of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their sagacity...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...and the longer ihey have lasted and the more generally the; have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on bis own private slock of reason, because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that the...
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The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the ..., Volume 1

John Taylor - 1839 - 274 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 his own private stock of reason; because \ve suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail...
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The Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - 1839 - 554 pages
...enlightened and liberal to one set of men in England, it may be true. It is not generally so. We arp nfraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of yqason ; because we suspect ihrU t^'-s stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 30

1855 - 534 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...because we suspect that this stock in each man is email, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital...
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