 Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,...  The constitutional history of England, 1760-1860 - Page 445by Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and, what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusions are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of 20 inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - 500 pages
...superior. But Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate, and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments?... | |
 | Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 380 pages
...powers. When the representative body became supreme then it could be said in the words of Burke, t " Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interest each must maintain as an agent and advocate against the other agents and advocates.... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 280 pages
...superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles from those who hear the arguments... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 408 pages
...opinion. . . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination...which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 410 pages
...legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sftrt of reason is thnt in which the determination precedes the discussion,...which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 496 pages
...opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion,—in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ? . . Parliament is not a congress... | |
 | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson - 1895 - 232 pages
...but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. ... It is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole, where not local... | |
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