| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
| Daniel Parker Coke - Elections - 1803 - 462 pages
...set of men. 1 Lese he Hoes not deiive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
| Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...living. These he does not derive from your pleasure — no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...answerable. Your representative owes you, not his induftry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your... | |
| Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - Oratory - 1810 - 514 pages
...living. These he does not derive from your pleasure— -no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
| Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours.... | |
| England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...representative to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to his constituents. But his unhiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience,...judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. * # * « » if government were a matter of will, upon any side ; yours,... | |
| John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 308 pages
...men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law nor the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of...judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving, you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." " Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and... | |
| John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 336 pages
...no, nor from the law nor the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of wnich he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes...judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving, you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." " Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and... | |
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