 | Thomas Erskine May - 1866 - 646 pages
...desire to acknowledge many obligations, relates the most instructive incidents of general history. 2 " 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." —... | |
 | Louis John Jennings - 1868 - 364 pages
...to adopt the most unscrupulous expedients to extend their sphere of dominion. According to Burke, " party is a body of men united for promoting, by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed." It is not too much to affirm that politicians seldom rise to this view of party in the American republic.... | |
 | English government - 1870 - 114 pages
...What are " Politics " ? A. The science of government. Q. What is meant by a " Party " in politics ? A. A body of men united for promoting, by their joint...interest upon some particular principle in which they all agree. This is Edmund Burke's "deBnition. Q. What are the two leading parties in England ? A. Whigs... | |
 | 1870 - 694 pages
...Thoughts on the Came of the Present Discontentt,\iaB a defence, or rather an encomium, of party. " 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... | |
 | 1870 - 612 pages
...Tliovghts on the Cause of the Preient Di*contents,\ia& a defence, or rather an encomium, of party. " 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... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 598 pages
...take our departure from Burke's well-known definition. " Party," says the great philosophic statesman, "is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some principle in which they are all agreed." Party, in this sense of the word, is something every one can... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 618 pages
...scarcely call this, however, a good thing per se. What becomes then of Burke's definition of party as " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed ?" Is it of no application at all in our day? Certainly; as... | |
 | 1872 - 1176 pages
...for promoting, by their joint endeavours, ;:.„• national interest upon some particular priv ciple in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive t'...: any one believes in his own politics, or thi:xthem to be of any weight, who refuses v adopt... | |
 | 1872 - 606 pages
...Constitution, the hasis of party. The basis of party is opinion, or according to Burke's definition, ' Party is a body ' of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the na' tional interest upon some particular principle in which they ' are all agreed.' A faction, on the... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1872 - 508 pages
...ATTACHMENTS. THE morality of party attachments deserves an attempt at definition. " A party," says Burke, " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interests upon some particular principles upon which they are agreed." But if a member of a party has... | |
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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. 
