 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 340 pages
...an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in the House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented...representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw ! This is what is called the rotten part of the Constitution. It... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1884 - 346 pages
...an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in the House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented...representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw ! This is what is called the rotten part of the Constitution. It... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in this house. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here ? Is he represented...number ! Or will you tell him that he is represented by a representative of a borough — a borough, which, perhaps, its own representative never saw. This... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 468 pages
...Would to God that respectable representation were augmented by a greater number ! Or will you tell me that he is represented by any representative of a borough, a borough which perhaps no man ever saw ? This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution ; it cannot endure the century. If it... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1885 - 478 pages
...represented in this house. They never have been represented at all in Parliament. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire in any county of this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation were augmented by a greater number !... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1885 - 812 pages
...the House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any taught of the shire in any county in this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation were augmented to a greater number I Or will you tell him that he is represented by any representative... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 856 pages
...Would to God that respectable representation were augmented by a greater number! Or will you tell me that he is represented by any representative of a borough, a borough which perhaps no man ever saw? This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution; it cannot endure the century. If it does... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - Anglo-Saxon race - 1890 - 452 pages
...Would to God that respectable representation were augmented by a greater number! Or will you tell me that he is represented by any representative of a borough, a borough which perhaps no man ever saw? This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution; it cannot endure the century. If it does... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1896 - 522 pages
...the most inestimable of their privileges. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here I Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county of this kingdom ? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number. Or... | |
 | English Orators - 1899 - 616 pages
...an idea in some that the colonies are virtually represented in the House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented...representative of a borough ? a borough which, perhaps, its own representatives never saw! This is what is called the rotten part of the constitution. It cannot... | |
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House. I would fain know by whom an American is represented here. Is he represented by any knight of the shire, in any county in this kingdom? Would to God that respectable representation was augmented to a greater number! Or will you tell him that he... 
