 | Edmund Burke - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1891 - 264 pages
...any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the 10 constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 15 My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...representative owes you, not his industry only, but i Prior's Lift of Burke, vol. ip 280. 2 Burke's Works, " Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll," 1774,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1893 - 286 pages
...to any set of met living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, — no, nor free the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representativ owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betray*, instead of serving... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 398 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 486 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - Democracy - 1895 - 232 pages
...particular point he was free to act as he chose. 'Your representative,' said Burke to his constituents, ' owes you not his industry only but his judgment, and...of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a... | |
 | American periodicals - 1895 - 850 pages
...convenience may be called the cancus. "Your representative," said Burke to the electors of Bristol, " owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if be sacrifices it to your opinion. I maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 496 pages
...to any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only, 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 inclination; and what... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1909 - 494 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence,...owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. a matter of will upon... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is 25 deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he... | |
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 
