 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Pagina 219door Edmund Burke - 1835Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pagina’s
...himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. 10 Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...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,... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1897 - 794 pagina’s
...displayed may be justification for the quotation :— " It ought," said the great and famous publicist, " 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 - 1897 - 424 pagina’s
...paragraph five, sentences 14, 15, 18, and 20 show marked likeness of form in the contrasting parts. 1. Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...most unreserved communication with his constituents. 2. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted... | |
 | 1907 - 762 pagina’s
...convictions reveal them to him. Listen to Edmund Burke, speaking to the electors of Bristol. He 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 unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiased opinion, his mature... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pagina’s
...owe you a clear explanation of my poor sentiments on that subject. He tells you, that " the topick of instructions has occasioned much altercation and...the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communix By EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), statesman and philosopher. In 1766 he entered Parliament just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 pagina’s
...him rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, Gentlemen, itonght to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect ; their business un remitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pagina’s
...by at a time when I have so little leisure to discuss it. But since he has thought proper to throw it out, I owe you a clear explanation of my poor sentiments...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to hav» 'great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pagina’s
...people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | University of Sydney. Sydney University Union - 1902 - 360 pagina’s
...down the duty of a representative of the people in Parl1ament : — " It ought, certainly, gentlemen, 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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