 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 sivua
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favor of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representa- [25° live to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved... | |
 | Rome Green Brown - 1917 - 1002 sivua
...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...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention; but his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment,... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 sivua
...expresses himself (if I understand him rightly) in favour of the coercive authority of such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs ; and, above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest... | |
 | Pherozeshah Mehta - 1918 - 568 sivua
...his constituents after being elected Member for Bristol in 1774. Said the great Parliamentarian -.— "Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a re?presentattvc tolive in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most, unreserved... | |
 | Ivor John Carnegie Brown - 1920 - 184 sivua
...theory of delegation. It was put forward very strongly by Edmund Burke to his Bristol constituents : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Ivor John Carnegie Brown - 1920 - 188 sivua
...theory of delegation. It was put forward very strongly by Edmund Burke to his Bristol constituents : " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought 74 to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention.... | |
 | Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert - 1920 - 280 sivua
...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... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 sivua
...the people of Bristol as decisive and binding. Burke in a weighty passage upheld a manlier doctrine : Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Michael MacDonagh - 1921 - 300 sivua
...representative, at least, and also, it must be said, in the opinion of a large body of the electors. Burke said it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...wishes ought to have great weight with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremitted attention. " But," Burke goes on, " his unbiased opinion,... | |
 | 1921 - 594 sivua
...that it is only American institutions that are on the downward path. It was Edmund Burke who said that it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative...most unreserved communication with his constituents. It is only in New York and the New England States that we find the old Tory or Federalist idea that... | |
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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. 
