"We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages."
Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event
At least 22 entries in the ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1793).<br>
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See Edmund Burke, <u>Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris</u> (London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1790) &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107629894&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/K043880.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from ECCO-TCP and Past Masters.<br>
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Reading <u>Reflections on the Revolution in France</u>, ed. J. G. A. Pocock (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987). [Pocock identifies the definitive edition of Burke's <u>Reflections</u> as William B. Todd's (Rinehart Books, 1959)].