 Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each 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 Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 14by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...an agent and advocate against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole...resulting from the general reason of the whole— You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he ic a member... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...agent and advocate against other agents and advocates. But, Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ow nation with oNE interest, that of the whole. Where, not local purposes, or local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 426 pages
...Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ONE nation, with ONE interest, and that of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." There is another evil connected with the practical... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - Canada - 1833 - 414 pages
...Parliament is a deliberative assembly of ONE nation, with ONE interest, and that of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." There is another evil connected with the practical... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1034 pages
...Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." And those words were not the bravado of a man secure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose amember indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; hut parliament is a deliberative assembly a duk@ To this sound, constitutional doctrine, Mr. BURKE invariably adhered through the whole of his parliamentary... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 474 pages
...an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly nt charter, the Magna Charta of king Jobn, was connected...were nothing more than a reaffirmance of the stil To this sound, constitutional doctrine, Mr. BURKE invariably adhered tbrough the whole of his parliamentary... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
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