 The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency....  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2841827Full view - About this book
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - France - 1910 - 404 pages
...distinction of a popular representative. - This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. ' It was not instituted to be a control upon the people.)... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - Constitutional law - 1912 - 236 pages
...types were not altogether unrepresented in the House : an approximation was made to the ideal of Burke that "the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consists in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation."1 Each pair of members then represented one of the complex... | |
 | John MacCunn - Philosophy - 1913 - 290 pages
...of a brief for his own constituents. Yet it is not unreasonable. To borrow words of Burke's own : ' The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.'1 And ceteris paribus, it is always an advantage that... | |
 | Edward Melland - Great Britain - 1919 - 42 pages
...be complete and Bureaucracy will not be absolutely dead. Burke's words are as true now as ever: — The virtue, spirit and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. ... It was not instituted to be a control upon the people... | |
 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - Church and state - 1922 - 358 pages
...T Ibid., p. 66. Burke in his ' ' Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Piscontents," 1770, had said: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of tta nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - Democracy - 1923 - 754 pages
...acceptable to the people, or while factions predominated in the Court in which the nation had no confidence. "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,... | |
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