 | University of Sydney. Sydney University Union - Universities and colleges - 1902 - 360 pages
...down the duty of a representative of the people in Parl1ament : — " It ought, certainly, gentlemen, 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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to hav» 'great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention.... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 244 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...glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...most unreserved communication with his constituents." "It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs, and above all,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - Democracy - 1907 - 136 pages
...the real duty of a representative to his The real constituency. He said: — ... TT -j representative "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 unbiassed opinion, his mature... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 488 pages
...proposition discussed in the following ? Make a careful analysis of the selection. Obedience to Instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unreniitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...it had been suggested a clear explanation of his own sentiments on that subject was due. He added : "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,... | |
 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 268 pages
...address to the electors he touched on the topic of instructions to members. This is what he said — "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...representative to live in the strictest union, the closest corre157 spondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - United States - 1912 - 196 pages
...forgotten the real duty of a representative to those who have chosen him. Let me read what Burke 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... | |
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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. 
