 Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him;...  The Irish ecclesiastical record - Стр. 112авторы: Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - Страниц: 510
...always sure to follow it. THE DUTIES OF A EEPKESENTATIVE. From the Bristol Speech, November 3, 1774. It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - Страниц: 244
...people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...glory of a representative to live in the strictest nnion, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved communication with his constituents. Their... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - Страниц: 214
...following is the passage referred to :— " It ought to be the happiness and glory of a repre" sentative to live in the strictest union, the closest " correspondence, and the most unreserved communi" cation with his constituents. Their wishes ought to " have great weight with him; their opinion,... | |
 | 1898 - Страниц: 592
...relation of a member of Parliament to his constituents. He believed it to be "the happiness and the glory of a representative to live in the strictest...most unreserved communication with his constituents." "It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions to theirs, and above all,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1907 - Страниц: 136
...the real duty of a representative to his The real constituency. He said: — ... TT -j representative "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect; their business unremitted attention. . . . But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1921 - Страниц: 858
...On this point the opinion expressed by Burke in his Bristol speech of 1774 is illuminating. He says: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1911 - Страниц: 318
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Courtenay Ilbert - 1911 - Страниц: 268
...address to the electors he touched on the topic of instructions to members. This is what he said — "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...representative to live in the strictest union, the closest corre157 spondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1912 - Страниц: 196
...forgotten the real duty of a representative to those who have chosen him. Let me read what Burke said: "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...high respect; their business unremitted attention. .... But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice... | |
 | 1913 - Страниц: 1128
...can not be better stated than in the language of Edmund Burke to the electors of Bristol. Said he: It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...with him; their opinions high respect: their business unremitting attention; but his unbiased opinion, his mature Judgment, his enlightened conscience, he... | |
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