 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1874 - 432 pages
...conduct, and his intention of conforming to them. Mr. Burke told them that he could do no such thing : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...This motion being seconded by Fox, Lord North thereupon rose and said : OBEDIENCE TO INSTRUCTIONS. 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 582 pages
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. 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,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...conduct, and his intention of conforming to them. Mr Burke told them that he could do no such thing : " hrane the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...conduct, and his intention of conforming to them. Mr Burke told them that he could do no such thing : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, the most uureserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with... | |
 | John Morley - Fiction - 1879 - 236 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,... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 256 pages
...people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. i "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,... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 242 pages
...communication with 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, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...views of the relations which should subsist between a member of Parliament and his constituents : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...high respect; their business, unremitted attention. . . But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...views of the relations which should subsist between a member of Parliament and his constituents : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most uureserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their... | |
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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. 
