 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...  The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir - Page 217by Edmund Burke - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress...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 member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...to / the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress...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 member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congresi of ambassadors from different and hostile interests...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 member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 pages
...an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a /Wi&rvrtiwassembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
 | 1808 - 540 pages
...different and hostile interests, which interests eacji must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against the other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative...member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he " is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should \ • . 1 have... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...and advocate, against the other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly oi one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ;...the general good, resulting from the general reason ot the whole. You chuse a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. Parliament is not a congress...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 member... | |
 | 1812 - 500 pages
...Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ear.h must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other...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 member... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different...resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is. a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates : but parliament is a deliberative assembly ot one nation, with one interest, that of the whole;...resulting from the general reason of the whole :—you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
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