 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...interests and sympathies of the people. It had nearly approached Mr. Burke's standard, according to whom, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons,...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." l The best results of reform had been realised : the country was prosperous and contented.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1861 - 544 pages
...interests and sympathies of the people. It had nearly approached Mr. Burke's standard, according to whom, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons,...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." l The best results of reform had been realised : the country was prosperous and contented.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 496 pages
...interests and sympathies of the people. It had nearly approached Mr. Burke's standard, according to whom, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consists in its being the express imiige of the feelings of a nation." 8 The best results of reform had been realized : the country was... | |
 | Christianity - 1864 - 578 pages
...sympathies of the K 2 people, till it practically comes nearly up to Burke's standard, according to whom ' the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House ' of Commons...in its being the express image of the ' feelings of a nation.' The examining into the working of the House of Commons naturally led Mr. May to a careful... | |
 | 1864 - 530 pages
...sympathies of the K2 people, till it practically comes nearly up to Burke's standard, according to whom ' the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House ' of Commons consists in its heing the express image of the ' feelings of a nation.' The examining into the working of the House... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 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...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to 'be a control upon the people, as of late it has beeu 'taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - 1867 - 588 pages
...to the King in a distinct and authentic form the opinions and the wishes of his manifold subjects. "The virtue spirit and essence of a House of Commons...express image of the feelings of the nation."* It is in this sense, as the same great authority observes, in its quick and unfailing sympathy with the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 552 pages
...expresses this sentiment with admirable justness and force, — " The virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control UPON the people, as of late has been taught by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1870 - 552 pages
..." that a House of Commons, which in The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consist 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,... | |
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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.... 
