 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 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."* The best results of reform had been realized : the country was prosperous and contented.... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 370 pages
...even went so far as to assert that the virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consisted in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. When Lord Carmarthen founded a plea for withholding representation from America on the ground that... | |
 | John Richard Green, Julian Hawthorne - Great Britain - 1898 - 552 pages
...electors at all. "The value, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons," said Burke, in noble words, "consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." But how far such a House as that which now existed was from really representing English opinion we... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1899 - 504 pages
...electors at all. 1469. "The value, spirit, and essence of a house of commons," said Burke, in nohle words, "consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." But how far such a house as that which now existed was from really representing English opinion we... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Executive power - 1901 - 374 pages
...headlong popular tyranny. " The value, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons," said Burke, " consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation ; " but the image of the nation's feelings should not be the only thing reflected by the constitution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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 been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Constitutional history - 1902 - 344 pages
...hundred and sixty thousand alone were electors. Yet Burke had said the value, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation's feelings. The House, however, had now become an alien institution, so aloof from the national... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...distinguishable. War is a situation which sets in its full light the value of the hearts of a people. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...being the express image of the feelings of the nation. Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1906 - 738 pages
...the Indian Mutiny. HISTORY I. HONOURS. Tou are rfconunen<tf4 lo answer SBVKN questions, and no more. 1. "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of...the express image of the feelings of the nation." By what arguments does Burke support this opinion ?' 2. " All political connections are in their nature... | |
 | Liberal Publication Department (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1908 - 530 pages
...House which was expressed by Edmund Burke in these words — " The virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the nation." "The Repose Characteristic of a Single-Chamber System." I know of no instance under a congenial... | |
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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.... 
