 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters...inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set o£ men deliberate and another decide, and where those...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ?" These sentiments, as we shall see hereafter, lost him the vote of Bristol at the next general election.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...this: " Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; hut y in the winter, that a revenumust he had out of America. Instantly h was tied down to his engagements h deliherate and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...of estates. Burke has laid down on this subject the natural law of all constitutional governments. "Government and legislation are matters of reason...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . , . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1861 - 544 pages
...but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of in1 About a thousand petitions are with the signatures, relating to annually printed in cxtenso ; and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of in1 About a thousand petitions are with the signatures, relating " annually printed in extenso ; and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 496 pages
...but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 488 pages
...but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - Constitutional history - 1863 - 590 pages
...number of petitions, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if lie sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and...of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in wliich the determination precedes the discussion, — in which one set of men deliberate, and another... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters...which the determination precedes the discussion ; in whioh one set of men deliberate and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps... | |
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If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes... 
