 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
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pages
...agent and advocate, against the other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberate 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837 - 744 pages
...agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly description of men, or any one man in any description. choose amember indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - 468 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 - 1839 - 646 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1839 - 592 pages
...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 a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 612 pages
...Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." And those words were not the bravado of a man secure... | |
 | George Croly - 1840 - 334 pages
...Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation with one interest, that of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member for Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament." And those words were not the bravado of a man secure... | |
 | George Bowyer - 1841 - 742 pages
...agent and advocate against other agents and advocates — but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, — that of the...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... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pages
...parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, and that of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member for Bristol, but he is a member of parliament." In America, on the contrary, representatives... | |
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