 | Sheldon Amos - 1880 - 548 Seiten
...is deeply answerable. Your ' representative owes you, not his industry only, but his ' judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if ' he sacrifices...question^ ' ought to be superior. But government and legisla' tion are matters of reason and judgment, and not of ' inclination; and what sort of reason... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 Seiten
...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Authoritative instructions ; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 Seiten
...conscience. " Your representative owes you not his industry only," he bravely said, " but hii judgment; and l the ordinances of God : such are " The public worship of God : the min He declared Parliament was not a congress of amiuradora from hostile states with different ^wrests,... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 Seiten
...is deeply answerable. Your representative .owes yon, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Authoritative instructions ; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 Seiten
...constituents, by saying, " Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." He remarked half-seriously of a personal relation with the city he represented, " Though I have the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 Seiten
...government. ' Your representative owes you,' he said, ' not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . i Speech on the Duration of Parlia- to Wentworth (January 22, 1634-5), mcnts. It is curious to... | |
 | 1883 - 836 Seiten
...any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " Jly worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 Seiten
...parliamentary representative : ' He owes you,' he said, ' not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion ' (ib. 236). His success afforded him great pleasure, and in a cheerful letter, dated 19 Nov., he describes... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - 1886 - 168 Seiten
...constituents. " Your representative," says Burke, " owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests. . . It is a... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 Seiten
...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion... | |
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But, his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a... 
