 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 σελίδες
...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, 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... | |
 | University of Sydney. Sydney University Union - 1902 - 360 σελίδες
...down the duty of a representative of the people in Parl1ament : — " It ought, certainly, gentlemen, to be the happiness and glory of a representative...with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfaction to theirs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to hav» 'great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention.... | |
 | 1913 - 780 σελίδες
...wishes of his constituents. Burke in speaking of the charter and duties of a representative, said: "Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions, high respect; their business, unremitting attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to... | |
 | Charles James Longman - 1903 - 618 σελίδες
...constitutional relations of members of Parliament and their constituents. ' Their wishes,' he said, ' ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience,... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 510 σελίδες
...always sure to follow it. THE DUTIES OF A EEPKESENTATIVE. From the Bristol Speech, November 3, 1774. 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,... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 244 σελίδες
...decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 σελίδες
...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,... | |
 | 1898 - 592 σελίδες
...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...most unreserved communication with his constituents." "It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs, and above all,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1907 - 130 σελίδες
...the real duty of a representative to his The real ... TT -j ''• representative constituency, lie said : — "It ought to be the happiness and glory...him ; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience,... | |
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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. 
