 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.  Our Social Heritage - Page 191by Graham Wallas - 1921 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 pages
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communix By EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), statesman and philosopher. In 1766 he entered Parliament just... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 pages
...him rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, Gentlemen, itonght to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect ; their business un... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 pages
...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 pages
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to hav» 'great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business,... | |
 | University of Sydney. Sydney University Union - 1902 - 360 pages
...down the duty of a representative of the people in Parl1ament : — " It ought, certainly, gentlemen, to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 244 pages
...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,... | |
 | 1898 - 592 pages
...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...and above all, ever and in all cases to prefer their interests to his own." "But his unbiased opinion," he continues, "his mature judgment, his enlightened... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1907 - 136 pages
...the real duty of a representative to his The real constituency. He said: — ... TT -j representative "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted... | |
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