 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Kvery profession, not excepting the glorious one of a soldier or the... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - 1886 - 168 pages
...take a clearer and juster view of its object and limits. " Party," says Burke in a well-known passage, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." And to the institution as thus denned little exception can be taken. But it is manifestly of the essence... | |
 | 1886 - 608 pages
...Peloponnesian. 19. The passage from Burke is rightly given by thirty-four members, and is as follows : ' Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon Mme particular principle in which they are all agreed ' (Prêtent Discontents'). Moonraker is severe... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1896 - 912 pages
...purpose it is immaterial whether we agree with the somewhat Olympian definition given by Burke that a party is " a body of men united for promoting by their joint " endeavours the national interests upon some particular principle " on which they are agreed," or whether wo hold the view of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1887 - 574 pages
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 pages
...often be found that those who boast of placing country before party place themselves before either. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their...endeavours the national interest upon some particular in which they are all agreed." That is Burke's definition, and it holds good to-day. Superfine- folk... | |
 | Hendrik Pieter de Wilde - 1889 - 196 pages
...najagen, maar zij zoeken het algemeen belang te bevorderen , zoodat men met Burke kan zeggen : „ a party is a body of men united for promoting , by their...interest, upon some particular principle in which they all are agreed." Terwijl facties alle met gelijksoortige middelen verschillende doeleinden najagen... | |
 | 1889 - 1264 pages
...underlie the theory of our unwritten constitution. MARLBOROUGH. THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Party is n body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed. —Burke. THE discussion which has been raised during the last... | |
 | Hannis Taylor - 1889 - 672 pages
...expressed it, party has come to mean "a body of men united, for promoting by their * joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." In that way each party has become so accustomed to united political action that when it wins control... | |
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. 
