 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
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 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... | |
 | Daniel Parker Coke - 1803 - 462 pages
...an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where not local purposes, not local prejudicesought to guide but the generalgood, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 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 - 1804 - 228 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... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 514 pages
...and advocate, against the other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly oi one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ;...the general good, resulting from the general reason ot the whole. You chuse a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol,... | |
 | 1811 - 584 pages
...deliberative assembly of one nation with one in" tercst, that of the whole; where not local purposes, nor local "prejudices ought to guide, but the general...resulting " from the general reason of the whole." The aggregate welfare of the United States is the constitutional, and only proper • Speech at Bristol... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 508 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 504 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates : but parliament is a deliberative assembly ot 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... | |
 | Edmond Burke - 1815 - 240 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... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 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 is a member... | |
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