 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...reason, instinct is always in the right. INSTRUCTIONS FROM CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unretnkted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...me when I first read it many years ago, at the time of my own election to Parliament. Burke said : "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremltted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 336 pages
...without uttering a sentiment or urging an argument, which he did not feel: " certainly, gentlcinen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...satisfactions, to theirs; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 308 pages
...constituents, without uttering a sentiment or urging an argument, which he did not feel: " Certainly, gendemon, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, I his satisfactions, to theirs; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...complained at the moment of want of time and preparation for the discussion. *' Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...satisfactions to theirs ; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...understand him right, in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...did not his mother spare: Though beauty be a killing dart, It is no armour for the heart. Ethcridae. LVII. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a...satisfactions, to theirs and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...understand him riirhtly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremittcd attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, w= zr h e朷 m - |O nz N8 :l = N; l b*(ᦥMk@ d;Sq) Z .: N re* spect; their business unremiited attention. It is his duty to sacrifice hie repose, his pleasures,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...unreserved communication with his constituents. Their »ishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremittcd... | |
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Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. 
