 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 Seiten
...the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to havei great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It... | |
 | 1916 - 476 Seiten
...hideous nightmare. But even Burke recognised the general responsibility of a member of Parliament to his constituents : ' Their wishes ' ought to have...weight with him ; their opinion, high ' respect ; their business, unremitted attention.' And even while claiming that a member of Parliament ought not to sacrifice... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 Seiten
...right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 Seiten
...right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 Seiten
...the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | 1808 - 540 Seiten
...the, coercive authority of such instructions. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion high respect , their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | 1812 - 500 Seiten
...point in the following unanswerable language. " .Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest...weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 518 Seiten
...reach of all future litigation. " Certainly, gentlemen," says he, " it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business,. unremitted attention ; it is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 Seiten
...right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest...weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unretnkted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions,... | |
 | 1897 - 808 Seiten
...years ago, at the time of my own election to Parliament. Burke said : "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest...wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremltted 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. 
