 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 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,...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes very kind of freemen, and voted many hundreds of them. you, not his industry only, but his judgment... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...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... | |
 | George Croly - Politicians - 1840 - 334 pages
...not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. They are a trust from Proridence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. 3. These he does not derive from your pleasure : no,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 4. The gentleman says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - Social Science - 1843 - 502 pages
...his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or any set of men living. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...but his judgment, and HE BETRAYS INSTEAD OF SERVING YOU,i/'A« sacrifice it to your opinion." Again — " If government were a matter of will upon any... | |
 | 1914 - 964 pages
...doubtless subscribe to the dogma enunciated by Burke in the famous speech to his constituents at Bristol: "Your representative owes you not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices It to your opinion." Nevertheless he admits, and indeed insists, that there can be no moral sanction for legislation on... | |
 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 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. My worthy colleague... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. 3. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no....serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 4. The gentleman says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...men living. /\ These he does not derive / from your pleasure — \ . no, /\ nor from the law - and the constitution. /\ They are a trust from Providence,...serving you, / if he sacrifices it \ to your opinion. 5. QUESTION AND ANSWER. The following is a continuation of the extract, in a previous chapter, on "... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1847 - 376 pages
...mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to any man, or to any set of men. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable." If it be thus with a legislator, it is so in a far higher and more awful sense with God's ambassador.... | |
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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. 
