 Let me say with plainness, I who am no longer in a public character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope to their understandings ; if we do...  A manual of the principles of government - Page 173by Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 454 pages
...reprefentatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal fcope to their underftandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we fhall at length infallibly degrade our national repreientation into a confufed and fcuffling buftle... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our nain. cg tional representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the popular... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do qot give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our navoi. m. G g tional representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...understandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon i very enlarged view of things 5 we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas, and render^ ed timid in his proceedings, the service of the crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...understandings ; if we do not permit our members to act upon a eaery enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into... | |
 | 1812 - 500 pages
...character, that if, by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency." — If " the popular member" be " narrowed in his ideas, and rendered timid in his proceedings. —... | |
 | R Cullum - 1818 - 424 pages
...country at large. To pursue an opposite, coi rse, would indeed be, as was well said by Mr. Burke., la degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. — (Applause.) " Gentlemen, I will not much longer detain you from the business of the dity. My public... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 740 pages
...character, that if by a fair, by an indulgent, by a gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal scope...enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly desrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 648 pages
...gentlemanly behaviour to our representatives, we do not give confidence to their minds, and a liberal «cope racle or not. They took infinite pains to inculcate, aa a fundamental p wry enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into... | |
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