 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 sider
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the 30 closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - 500 sider
...the last century, just when the Platform was beginning to come into prominence. "It ought," he said,2 "to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 280 sider
...construction. The following will illustrate all these varieties of balance : — Certainly, gentlemen, 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 unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 286 sider
...communication with his constituents. Thei wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions hip respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs, — and, abovi all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 398 sider
...his constituents. " Their wishes," said he, " ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs ; and, above all, ever and in all cases to prefer their interest... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 sider
...following ? Make a careful analysis of the selection. Obedience to Instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 sider
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. 10 Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their 15 opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1896 - 896 sider
...honours would now be laughed at who should venture to say, as Burke did to the electors of Bristol, " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 sider
...long-drawn, stately periods. — OW HOLMES: Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 sider
...been pardoned, Burke was on the alert to assert his independence^ ' Certainly, gentlemen,' he said,1 ' 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 unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
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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. 
