 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...thought proper to throw it out, I owe you a clear explanation of my poor sentiments on that subject. He tells you that " the topic of instructions has occasioned...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to havei great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It... | |
 | Daniel Parker Coke - Elections - 1803 - 462 pages
...the candid perusal of the Electors of NOTTINGHAM. CKHTAIT? LT, gentleman, it ought to be the happiand glory of a Representative to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion, high respect; their otrsiness, uuremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfaction,... | |
 | 1916 - 476 pages
...hideous nightmare. But even Burke recognised the general responsibility of a member of Parliament to his constituents : ' Their wishes ' ought to have...' respect ; their business, unremitted attention.' And even while claiming that a member of Parliament ought not to sacrifice his ' enlightened conscience... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unretnkted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...me when I first read it many years ago, at the time of my own election to Parliament. Burke said : "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremltted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...instructions has occasioned much altercation and uneasiness in this city;" and he expresses himself (if 1 + g } sξ { 1\ 5{M z /o ;ž M 4fg ... - |O nz N8 :l = N; l b*(ᦥMk@ d;Sq) Z .: N re* spect; their business unremiited attention. It is his duty to sacrifice hie repose, his pleasures,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...altercation and uneasiness " in this city;" and he expresses himself (if I understand him riirhtly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions....him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremittcd attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...tells you, that ' Ihc topiek of instructions has occasioned much altercation and uneasiness in ¡his city;' and he expresses himself (if I understand him...unreserved communication with his constituents. Their »ishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremittcd... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...understand him rightly, in favor of a coercive authority of instructions from constituents. Certainly, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...most unreserved communication with his constituents, 2. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business,... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...successfully given by the speaker, if he enters earnestly into the argument. Itoughttobethe7«jj>pzness - and glory - of a representative, to live - in the...; / their opinion, high respect, / their business, \ tmremitted attention. / It is his duty, to sacrifice his repose, / his pleasures, / his satisfactions,... | |
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Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;... 
