 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
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 594 pages
...Cause of the Pre• 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... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892 - 500 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 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;... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, J. V. Denney - 1893 - 312 pages
...innocent. If government were a matter of will on any side, yours, without question ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of reason...form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles from those who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1893 - 286 pages
...government were a matter of will on any side, yours, without question ought to be superior. But governmeai and legislation are matters of reason and judgment...form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles from those who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents... | |
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