 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
 | Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...innocent. If government were a matter of will on my side, yours without question ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and when those who form the conclusion, are perhaps 300 miles distant from those who hear the arguments."... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1845 - 422 pages
...question, without thinking what practical contradiction they afford to the saying of Burke, that " government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination."* Here was, session after session, a display of reason, and judgment, and * Speech at Bristol after his... | |
 | Charles Greville - 1845 - 388 pages
...question, without thinking what practical contradiction they afford to the saying of Burke, that " government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination."* Here was, session after session, a display of reason, and judgment, and * Speech at Bristol after his... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - 340 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...hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments ? ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - 1846 - 454 pages
...government were a matter of will, - upon any side. \ yours, without question, \ ought to be superior. But government and legislation \ are matters of reason,...inclination ; / and what sort of reason - is that, in which one set of men deliberate, \ and another decide ; / and where those who form the conclusion, are perhaps... | |
 | James Caughey - 1847 - 376 pages
...inclination, it quite altered the case. " What sort of reason is that," he inquired, " which precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate, and...form the conclusion are, perhaps, three hundred miles from those who hear the argument ?" After a few masterly strokes, in which he stated the sacrifices... | |
 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 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...not of inclination ; and what sort of reason is that 1780. Sir H. Lippincott C 3518 Matthew Brickdale C 2771 Henry Cruger W 1271 Samuel Peach W 788 Edmund... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without ques tion, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and anothei decide, and where... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 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...inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 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...inclination ; and what sort of reason is that in which determination precedes discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where... | |
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