 | John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 336 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...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 - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...hearers, though they were before of a different opinion. The substance of his argument was this : " Government and legislation are. matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; but what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent If government were a matter of will on any side, yours without question ought to be superior....and legislation are matters of reason and judgment; not of inclination: and what sort_pf reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion?... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 426 pages
...question, ought to he superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that,...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 Hamilton - Canada - 1833 - 414 pages
...SERVING YOU if he sacrifice it to your opinion." Again. " If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior....and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. * * # * * if government were a matter of will, upon any side ; yours, without question, ought to be superior....and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion;... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - Canada - 1833 - 420 pages
...sacrifice it to your opinion." Again. ment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that, in luhich the determination precedes the discussion; in which...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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be • :¡frior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deb'bcrate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three him•¡ret!... | |
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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... 
