 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 pages
...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect : their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,...above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interests to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he... | |
 | James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...sacrifices a representative owes to his constituents, he limited those duties and sacrifices thus : " But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to any man, or to any set of men. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply... | |
 | 1854 - 572 pages
...rank in the scale of human duties. What Burke said to the electors of Bristol, he may well say : " His unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to any man, or to any set of men living. His right to vote should bo chartered with liberty of conscience... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business urn-emitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; nnd, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer tluui interest to his own. But, bis unbiassed opinion,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...is hi* duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleacures, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above afl, u @ bis mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you ; to any man, or... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...constitutional principle, which distinguished him, — the relations of a representative to his constituents. " His unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any nwD) or to any set of men living. . . Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs, — and above all, ever,...cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose...above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interests to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,...above all, ever and in all cases, to prefer their interests to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he... | |
 | John Morley - 1867 - 338 pages
...the people who had just elected him, to sacrifice his repose and his pleasure to his constituents ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. His judgment, on the contrary, he ought never under any circumstances to sacrifice. " Your representative... | |
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... 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. 
