 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...  Critical Miscellanies - Page 21by John Morley - 1871 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 636 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency. It previously engages the mind in a steady course of...prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature.' It is true that certain ' institutions savour of superstition in their very principle, and they nourish... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency : it previously engages the mind in a steady course of...virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Burke. MUSIC. " MUCH music marreth men's manners," said Galen. Although some men will say that it doth... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency: it previously engages the mind in a steady course of...virtue his habit, and not a series of unconnected acts. Burke. MUSIC. " MUCH music marreth men's manners," said Galen. Although some men will say that it doth... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...to do nothing against one's genius. 4440 Hawthorne : American Note-Books. Oct. 25, 1836. PREJUDICE. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and not...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. 4441 Burke : Reflections on the Revolution in France. People have prejudices against a nation in which... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of...decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice | srenders a man's virtue his habit ; and not a series of uncon- I nected acts. Through just prejudice,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1892 - 598 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. Your literary men, and your politicians, and so do the whole clan of the enlightened among us, essentially... | |
 | Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - 1893 - 572 pages
...eulogy, " is of readyapplication in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment...prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature." Burke seems here to have fallen into the very error I was just mentioning, of using inappropriate epithets.... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...(See OCCUPATIONS). PREJUDICE. He hears but half who hears one party only. A. ..ESCHYLUS — Eum. 428. Lost. Bk. IL 105. In the wars of the European powers...have never taken any part, nor does it comport with o t. BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 pages
...an affection which will give it permanence. Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency ; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of...prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.' ( The great fault of the Reflections is that Burke refused to recognise the evils of the old system... | |
 | John Morley - 1898 - 422 pages
...their throne reason and reflection. Carried to its limit, this tendency developed the speculative and social excesses of the great sentimental school. In...through just prejudice his duty becomes a part of his nature.'1 What Burke designated as prejudice, Vauvenargues less philosophically styled virtuous instinct... | |
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