 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 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,... | |
 | Ethics - 1924 - 428 pages
...in the body of the people. It is the same principle which Burke eloquently expressed when he said: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." Manifestly, the first step in securing such a principle... | |
 | Hanna F. Pitkin - Philosophy - 1967 - 340 pages
...of Commons shall be made to bear some stamp of the actual disposition of the people at large. . . . The virtue, spirit and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.71 It is always "sentiment" or popular "feelings" that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 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 91 of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,... | |
 | James Conniff - Political Science - 1994 - 384 pages
...fancy and Caprice." 68 In addition, the Commons ought, in Burke's opinion, to be close to the people: "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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 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,... | |
 | Monika Mokre, Gilbert Weiss, Rainer Bauböck - Europe - 2003 - 310 pages
...Repräsentationsvorstellung weiter. Im Jahre 1774, vor seiner berühmten Rede in Bristol, hatte er geschrieben: »The virtue, spirit, and essence of a house of commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation« (zit. nach Fairlie 1968: 36). Innerhalb des Kollektivsubjekts... | |
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