 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...the thing is in nocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without ques tion, ought to be superior. But government and legislation...inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and anothei decide, and where... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior....one set of men deliberate, and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 340 pages
...innocent. If government were .a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to he superior. But government and legislation are matters...one set of men deliberate, and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles .distant from those who hear the... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior....one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...this: " Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; hut y in the winter, that a revenumust he had out of America. Instantly h was tied down to his engagements h deliherate and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...of estates. Burke has laid down on this subject the natural law of all constitutional governments. "Government and legislation are matters of reason...one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1861 - 544 pages
...but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of in1 About a thousand petitions are with the signatures, relating to annually printed in cxtenso ; and... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of in1 About a thousand petitions are with the signatures, relating " annually printed in extenso ; and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior....one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 488 pages
...but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament... | |
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If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes... 
