...the 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,...

...representative, at least, and also, it must be said, in the opinion of a large body of the electors. 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," Burke goes on, " his unbiased opinion,...

...from time to time to take 8 E. Burke, Speech at Bristol at the conclusion of the poll (1774). ". . .it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. ... It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above...

...that it is only American institutions that are on the downward path. It was Edmund Burke who said that it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. It is only in New York and the New England States that we find the old Tory or Federalist idea that...

...use climax where it is not necessitated by the thought leads to the misuse of the "oratorical triad." Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...glory of a representative to live in the strictest communion, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....

...the people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; then" opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his...

...of the people of Bristol as decisive and binding. in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with hia constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their...

...is the historic case of Burke and his Bristol electors, who desired him to obey their mandate : — Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unassumed communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their...

...Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness of a representative to live in the strictest union with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him. ...It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, pleasure, satisfaction to theirs, and above all to prefer...

...years ago expressed in a speech to his constituents the difference between an agent and a trustee: 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,...