Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,... Practical Elocution - Page 150by Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where no local purposes and local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general... | |
| Charles Duke Yonge - 1877 - 460 pages
...numerous, and many of which gress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests .... but Parlia* is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one...good resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
| Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 548 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental * mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitu' tion. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors ' from...' resulting from the general reason of the whole. You ' choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen ' him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is... | |
| George Henry Jennings - Anecdotes - 1880 - 842 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. Yon choose a member indeed; but when yon have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not Member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
| Sheldon Amos - Constitutional history - 1880 - 556 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental ' mistake of the whole order and tenor of our Constitu' tion. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors ' from...' prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, 1 resulting from the general reason of the whole. You ' choose a member indeed ; but when you have... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1880 - 436 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...against other agents and advocates : but Parliament is a deliberaf ! <•• assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of tin• whole ; where, not local... | |
| George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, onght to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a... | |
| David Syme - Great Britain - 1881 - 290 pages
...465. M tive assembly of our nation with one interest, that of the whole, where not local purposes, local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not the member for Bristol, but he... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 614 pages
...of the PreParliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one...interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . . You choose a member indeed, but when... | |
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