 If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be 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...  Parliament: Its History, Constitution and Practice - Page 158by Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 pages
...decide; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - 680 pages
...decide; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftan; from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a Reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men j that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 454 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 228 pages
...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,...which a representative ought always to rejoice to bear ; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions ; mandates... | |
 | 1808 - 540 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion ; in 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 the arguments ? " To... | |
 | 1833 - 1006 pages
...judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate,...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? *»»»»» Authoritative instructions, mandates, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1823 - 446 pages
...judgment, and not of inclination ; but what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? Parliament" said Mr. BURKE, " is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests;... | |
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