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| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 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,...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 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,...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favor of the, coercive authority of such instructions. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his... | |
| Europe - 1812 - 500 pages
...speech to the electors of Bristol, he discusses the point in the following unanswerable language. " .Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to pref r their interest to his own.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 518 pages
...their constituents," out of the reach of all future litigation. " Certainly, gentlemen," says he, " it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 508 pages
...the reach of all future litigation. " Certainly, gentlemen," says he, " it ought to be thehappiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest...his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 504 pages
...of their, constituents," out of the reach of all future litigation. "Certainly, gentlemen," says he, "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...respect; their business, unremitted attention ; it i» his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever... | |
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