| Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 Seiten
...often be found that those who boast of placing country before party place themselves before either. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their...endeavours the national interest upon some particular in which they are all agreed." That is Burke's definition, and it holds good to-day. Superfine- folk... | |
| Hendrik Pieter de Wilde - 1889 - 196 Seiten
...najagen, maar zij zoeken het algemeen belang te bevorderen , zoodat men met Burke kan zeggen : „ a party is a body of men united for promoting , by their...interest, upon some particular principle in which they all are agreed." Terwijl facties alle met gelijksoortige middelen verschillende doeleinden najagen... | |
| 1889 - 1264 Seiten
...underlie the theory of our unwritten constitution. MARLBOROUGH. THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Party is n body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed. —Burke. THE discussion which has been raised during the last... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1889 - 672 Seiten
...expressed it, party has come to mean "a body of men united, for promoting by their * joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." In that way each party has become so accustomed to united political action that when it wins control... | |
| Joseph Henry Crooker - 1889 - 306 Seiten
...the aggrandizement of its members. His precise definition Young America may well lay to heart : " A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they all agree." And respecting... | |
| Sir Arthur Helps - 1890 - 158 Seiten
...end to make use of both." 132. strive ... action. Cf. Burke, Thoughts on the Present Discontents, " For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politicks or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1892 - 400 Seiten
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politicks, or thinks them to be of any weight, who refuses to adopt the means of having them reduced... | |
| 1892 - 638 Seiten
...the gentlemen sitting on the Speaker's left hand be described with truth, in the words of Burke, as ' a body of men united ' for promoting, by their joint...particular principle in which they are ' all agreed ' ? Upon what ' particular principle ' are they all agreed ? Irish separatists, Welsh disestablishers,... | |
| Clemens Gottfried Koch - 1892 - 456 Seiten
...election to office, the people had the negative in a parliamentary refusal to support. p. 263 f. 2) party is a body of men united for promoting by their...endeavours the national interest upon some particular princJple in which they are all agreed. p. 3353) cf. Morley, Burke 103. Lecky III. 203. 4) Robertson... | |
| 1892 - 836 Seiten
...examination. " Party," says Burke, " is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." The particular principle apparently can be nothing but their joint opinion on the great question or... | |
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