 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. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;...  Parliament: Its History, Constitution and Practice - Page 158by Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - 256 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 398 pages
...his constituents. " Their wishes," said he, " ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs ; and, above all, ever and in all cases to prefer their interest... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denny, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1909 - 494 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....wishes ought to have great weight with him; their 15 opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1896 - 896 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 392 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 424 pages
...respect; their business unremitted attention; 3. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs, — and, above all, ever,...in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. 4. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice... | |
 | 1897 - 794 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | 1907 - 762 pages
...happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents....wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiased opinion, his mature... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 pages
...was at this time that he uttered these memorable words on the relations of a Parliamentary member to his constituents : — " Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
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