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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... "
Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills - Page 283
by Irishman - 1844
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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 one set of men deliberate and another decide, " The speech is one of the ablest I have ever heard, and it is one which, though I have had the happiness...
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The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 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...
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 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...
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Burke

John Morley - 1879 - 256 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...
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Burke

John Morley - 1879 - 242 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...
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The Friendship of Books

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 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...
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The Friendship of Books and Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1880 - 436 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...
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Fifty Years of the English Constitution, 1830-1880

Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 548 pages
...will upon any side, yours, without question^ ' ought to be superior. But government and legisla' tion are matters of reason and judgment, and not of ' inclination;...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...
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Fifty Years of the English Constitution, 1830-1880

Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 556 pages
...will upon any side, yours, without question, ' ought to be superior. But government and legisla' tion are matters of reason and judgment, and not of ' inclination...the determination precedes the discussion ; in which 1 one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and ' where those who form the conclusion are perhaps...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But govern* ment and legislation are matters of reason and judgment,...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...
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