 Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,...  The constitutional history of England, 1760-1860 - Page 445by Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Daniel Parker Coke - 1803 - 462 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination 150 precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and, • what sort of reason is that, in which the determination 150 precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | 1808 - 540 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those, who from the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in 'which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | 1812 - 500 pages
...senator of the United States from Virginia, who doth not hold himself bound to obey sucll instructions. sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...judgment, his enlightened conscience, be, ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men. 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 :... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 pages
...be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
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