If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 14by Edmund Burke - 1807Full view - About this book
| John Morley - 1879 - 236 pages
...innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...decide, and where those who form the conclusion are perhapa three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . . . Authoritative instructions,... | |
| Sheldon Amos - 1880 - 548 pages
...will upon any side, yours, without question^ ' ought to be superior. But government and legisla' tion are matters of reason and judgment, and not of ' inclination;...three ' hundred miles distant from those who hear the argu' ments ? To deliver an opinion is the right of all men; ' that of constituents is a weighty and... | |
| Sheldon Amos - 1880 - 556 pages
...will upon any side, yours, without question, ' ought to be superior. But government and legisla' tion are matters of reason and judgment, and not of ' inclination...the determination precedes the discussion ; in which 1 one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and ' where those who form the conclusion are perhaps... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 594 pages
...Cause of the Preā¢ Parliaments are of the nature of cats. sent IHscontenti. sort of reason is that in which one set of men deliberate and another decide,...and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments?' These views were generally adopted by the Whig... | |
| 1883 - 836 pages
...were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But govern* ment and legislation are matters of reason and judgment,...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? . . . Authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question-, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? " To deliver an opinion is the right of all men... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1886 - 388 pages
...their wishes than by their experience, that every citizen needs to have impressed upon his mind that government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. Nor let any one imagine that the expression of the belief constantly avowed or implied throughout these... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1886 - 332 pages
...their wishes than by their experience, that every citizen needs to have impressed upon his mind that government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination. Nor let any one imagine that the expression of the belief constantly avowed or implied throughout these... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pages
...... If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusions are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the argument? ... Authoritative... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1891 - 264 pages
...innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of 20 inclination ; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion... | |
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