 | F. R. Ankersmit - 2002 - 284 pages
...longer need to be amazed by Burke's utterly un-Enlightened eulogy of prejudice: "You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess...we cherish them to a very considerable degree; and the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them."9... | |
 | F. H. Buckley - 2005 - 260 pages
...our passions as much as by reason. The English, he said, "are generally men of untaught feelings," so that "instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices."... | |
 | Michael C. Tuggle, Mike Tuggle - 2004 - 210 pages
...a wisdom that should be valued for its success in maintaining a viable political and social order: I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feeling; that instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable... | |
 | Keith Negus, Michael Pickering - 2004 - 192 pages
...famous work illustrates very well the damage of sticking to the tried and trusted: You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings; we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them... | |
 | Steven P. Sondrup, Virgil Nemoianu, Gerald Gillespie - 2004 - 500 pages
...intellectual horror that provoked him into resolute, often sarcastic, sometimes ironic objections: [In] this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess, that we [the British] are generally men of untaught feelings; that instead of casting away all our old prejudices,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2005 - 1864 pages
...epistemological detachment from it precisely because of our historical detachment from it. "You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess...of untaught feelings, that, instead of casting away our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves,... | |
 | F. H. Buckley - 2003 - 264 pages
...of untaught feelings," so that "instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices." This was an older use of the word prejudice, synonymous with sentiment or passion as opposed to reason.... | |
 | Edward Stringham - 2007 - 718 pages
...distrustful of human reason. This view was eloquently expressed by Edmund Burke: You see. Sir. that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess,...they are prejudices: and the longer they have lasted, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason:... | |
 | Mary Eberstadt - 2007 - 305 pages
...me as oddly compelling. It comes in the midst of Burke's defense of what he calls just prejudices. "We are generally men of untaught feelings, that,...prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree," Burke writes. Then, he adds: We cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have... | |
 | Richard Maxwell, Katie Trumpener - 2008 - 309 pages
...(pp. 90-1) would have been instantly recognizable as a sardonic allusion to Burke's infamous comment that "instead of casting away all our old prejudices,...shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices."12 However much the British Critic may have sniffed at Godwin's and Holcroft's overblown... | |
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You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree... 
