 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...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,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - Science - 1896 - 896 pages
...honours would now be laughed at who should venture to say, as Burke did to the electors of Bristol, " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - American literature - 1897 - 314 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1897 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | California - 1907 - 762 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1899 - 202 pages
...was at this time that he uttered these memorable words on the relations of a Parliamentary member to his constituents : — " Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 526 pages
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communix By EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), statesman and philosopher. In 1766 he entered Parliament just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1901 - 608 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
