 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
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1853 - 750 pages
...for their guide, but the general good as the result of the general reason of the whole. You choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a Member of Bristol — he is a Member of Parliament." He ventured on that high authority to think,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 340 pages
...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 is a member... | |
 | Peter Burke - Philosophy - 1854 - 346 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 member of Bristol, but he is & member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty opinion,... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...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 is a member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; hut parliament is a deliherative assemhly ihi -. great fahric. It ought to he our wish, as it is our duty, hut the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." To this sound, constitutional... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1861 - 536 pages
...of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 1 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | 1861 - 458 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." " If we do not permit our members to act upon a very enlarged viewof things, we shall at length infallibly... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1861 - 544 pages
...of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 1 Since that time, however, the relations between representatives and their constituents have become... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...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 member... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1862 - 496 pages
...of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; . . but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the...not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to gnide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole." 2 Since that time, however,... | |
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