 | New Zealand Institute - 1896 - 896 σελίδες
...honours would now be laughed at who should venture to say, as Burke did to the electors of Bristol, " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 σελίδες
...been pardoned, Burke was on the alert to assert his independence^ ' Certainly, gentlemen,' he said,1 ' it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs... | |
 | 1897 - 794 σελίδες
...displayed may be justification for the quotation :— " It ought," said the great and famous publicist, " to be the happiness and glory of a representative...him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 σελίδες
...long-drawn, stately periods. — OW HOLMES: Atlantic Monthly, January, 1864. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 422 σελίδες
...14, 15, 18, and 20 show marked likeness of form in the contrasting parts. 1. Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. 2. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect ; their business... | |
 | 1907 - 762 σελίδες
...sincerest convictions reveal them to him. Listen to Edmund Burke, speaking to the electors of Bristol. He said: It ought to be the happiness and glory of a...with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1899 - 202 σελίδες
...was at this time that he uttered these memorable words on the relations of a Parliamentary member to his constituents : — " Their wishes ought to have...him ; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 σελίδες
...understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative,...the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communix By EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), statesman and philosopher. In 1766 he entered Parliament just... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 σελίδες
...Constitution was in danger. See No. 123. — For Burke, see Burke, Works ; J. Morley, Edmund Burke. cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1901 - 608 σελίδες
...him rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, Gentlemen, itonght to be the happiness and glory of a representative...him ; their opinions high respect ; their business un remitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to... | |
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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. 
