 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...purposes ; not local prejudice.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 a Member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 pages
...purposes, not local prejudices, onght 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." A Bull. — In the course of his speech during... | |
 | David Syme - 1881 - 290 pages
...local purposes, local 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 the member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." The fallacy of this view is condensed in... | |
 | 1882 - 528 pages
...purposes, local prejudice*, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reasoning of the whole. You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not the member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." But in a speech to the same electors he... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 pages
...the whole ; where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . . You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him he is not member of Bristol, but a member of Parliament.' Electors are competent to select a man of judgment and knowledge... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...purposes, not local 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 a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...purposes, not local 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 a member of Parliament.—Speech on Conclu. of Poll. The House of Commons is... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - 1886 - 168 pages
...the whole, where not local purposes nor local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good. . . You choose a member, indeed, but when you have chosen him he is not member of Bristol but a member of Parliament." Parliament is a deliberative assembly, not a mere voting machine,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 pages
...purposes ; not local 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 a Member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose 10 a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or... | |
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... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member... 
