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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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Leaders of the senate: a biographical history of the rise and development of ...

Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 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 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments...
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England's Case Against Home Rule

Albert Venn Dicey - Home rule - 1886 - 332 pages
...their wishes than by their experience, that every citizen needs to have impressed upon his mind that government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. Nor let any one imagine that the expression of the belief constantly avowed or implied throughout these...
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England's Case Against Home Rule

Albert Venn Dicey - Home rule - 1886 - 388 pages
...their wishes than by their experience, that every citizen needs to have impressed upon his mind that government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. Nor let any one imagine that the expression of the belief constantly avowed or implied throughout these...
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The Friendship of Books: And Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 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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Reflections on the Revolution in France

Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...of serving you, if he sacrifice it to your opinion. ... 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 conclusions are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the...
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Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol

Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 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....legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of 20 inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion...
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The Platform: Its Rise and Progress, Volume 1

Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 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 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments?...
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Paragraph-writing

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 280 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....one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles from those who hear the arguments...
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Paragraph Writing

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 286 pages
...government were a matter of will on any side, yours, without question ought to be superior. But governmeai 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 from those who hear the arguments...
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Orations and Arguments by English and American Statesmen

Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 398 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...
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