 | 1914 - 964 pages
...constituents at Bristol: "Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and 'he betrays. Instead of serving you, if he sacrifices It to your opinion." Nevertheless he admits, and indeed insists, that there can be no moral sanction for legislation on... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 pages
...he is deeply answerable Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 4. The gentleman says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, \ but his judgment ; \ and he betrays, / instead of serving you, / if he sacrifices it \ to your opinion. 5. QUESTION AND ANSWER. The following is a continuation of the extract, in a previous chapter, on "... | |
 | James Wills - 1847 - 514 pages
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 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 47. Among those whom I never could persuade to rank themselves with Idlers, and who speak with indignation... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...worthy colleague says his will ought to be subject to yours. If that be all, the thing is in nocent. n ques tion, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Burke — to the Electors of Bristol. BEPROACH. — Does a man reproach thee for being proud or... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. A Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to he superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination... | |
 | Henry Washington Hilliard - 1855 - 510 pages
...instead of serving you, if he sacrifice it to your opinion." He adds again, " If government were a mere matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislai tion are matters of reason and judgment, not of inclination. And what sort of reason is that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...be is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices...his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that bo all, the thing is innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question,... | |
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But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a... 
