 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
 | Ivor John Carnegie Brown - 1920 - 184 pagina’s
...theory of delegation. It was put forward very strongly by Edmund Burke to his Bristol constituents : " 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,... | |
 | Ivor John Carnegie Brown - 1920 - 188 pagina’s
...theory of delegation. It was put forward very strongly by Edmund Burke to his Bristol constituents : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought 74 to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention.... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 pagina’s
...the 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,... | |
 | Michael MacDonagh - 1921 - 300 pagina’s
...representative, at least, and also, it must be said, in the opinion of a large body of the electors. Burke 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," Burke goes on, " his unbiased opinion,... | |
 | 1921 - 594 pagina’s
...that it is only American institutions that are on the downward path. It was Edmund Burke who said that it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. It is only in New York and the New England States that we find the old Tory or Federalist idea that... | |
 | Graham Wallas - 1921 - 332 pagina’s
...from time to time to take 8 E. Burke, Speech at Bristol at the conclusion of the poll (1774). ". . .it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. ... It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 338 pagina’s
...the people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; then" opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his... | |
 | John Morley - 1923 - 242 pagina’s
...of the people of Bristol as decisive and binding. in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with hia constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - 1923 - 272 pagina’s
...is the historic case of Burke and his Bristol electors, who desired him to obey their mandate : — Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unassumed communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black, Herbert Francis Wright - 1927 - 844 pagina’s
...years ago expressed in a speech to his constituents the difference between an agent and a trustee: 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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