| Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 496 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... | |
| Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - Constitutional history - 1863 - 590 pages
...number of petitions, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if lie sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and...of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in wliich the determination precedes the discussion, — in which one set of men deliberate, and another... | |
| Orator - 1864 - 186 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....which the determination precedes the discussion ; in whioh one set of men deliberate and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If goveiument 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... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 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... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1874 - 432 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... | |
| Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...the thing is in noccnt. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without ques tion, ingdom, without any reference whatever to any other...Constitution preserves a unity in so great a diversity determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and anothei decide, and where... | |
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