 Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Pagina xiidoor Edmund Burke - 1835Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Peter Burke - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. 6. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. 7. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pagina’s
...passage, illustrates this contrast. It concludes with a condition and its consequence. / Parliament is not a congress - of ambassadors, / from different...one nation, \ with one interest, \ that of the whole ; -.. / not - local prejudices, ought to guide, \ but the general good, \ resulting from the general... | |
 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenour of our con. stitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 552 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1852 - 558 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenour of our constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is... | |
 | 1859 - 370 pagina’s
...which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pagina’s
...conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . , . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." " If we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged viewof things, we shall at length infallibly... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pagina’s
...another decide ? . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation,...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 1 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
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