 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...understand him rightly, in favor of a coercive authority of instructions from constituents. Certainly, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...most unreserved communication with his constituents. 2. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business,... | |
 | George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1847 - 424 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...satisfactions, to theirs ; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interests to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...confident, that his present thoughts and conclusions are just and true, and cannot be deceived. 46. 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 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...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 - 1852 - 552 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...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all upon. — Sterne. REPRESENTATIVES. — 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... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...the instructions of their constituents ?" Burke spoke to the electors thus : " 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... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 pages
...the instructions- of their constituents?" Burke spoke to the eleetors thus: " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the elpsest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...did not his mother spare : Though beauty be a killing dart, It is no armour for the heart. Etheridge. LVII. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a...him ; their opinion high respect ; their business urn-emitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...understand him rightly) in favor 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.... | |
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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. 
