 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
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 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 a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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 a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | William Edward Hearn - 1867 - 592 pages
...and advocate against other agents and advocates : but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation with one interest, that of the whole, where...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... | |
 | 1868 - 518 pages
...and advocate ngainst other agents and advocates ; but 'Parliament is a deliberative assembly of our nation, with one ' interest, that of the whole, where...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... | |
 | 1868 - 512 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.' Hence arises the ever-perennial spring of... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 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 a member of Bristol, but he is a member... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 pages
...deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where no local purposes and local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good,...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You can choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a Member of Bristol, but a Member... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 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... | |
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