 | Edmund Burke - 1896 - 338 Seiten
...is 25 deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices...opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be sub- 30 servient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent. If government, were a matter of will... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 426 Seiten
...is deeply answerable. 7. 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. 8. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. 9. If that be all, the thing... | |
 | 1897 - 794 Seiten
...to 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." This is a note seldom heard in our day. It is true that Mr. Morley has imbibed the great spirit of... | |
 | Henry MacArthur - 1897 - 314 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!\ When, six years afterwards, he was fighting"' a losing battle in the same city against the forces of... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 394 Seiten
...only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 8. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. 9. If that be all, the thing is innocent. 10. If government "were a matter of will upon any side, yours,... | |
 | 1907 - 762 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. . . . Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from 566 567 different and hostile interests, which... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - 1900 - 526 Seiten
...judgment; and ne betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to ' ' • / -i your opmion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient...question, ought to be superior. But government and legis, . ° , lation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclmation \ and what sort of reason... | |
 | John Morley - 1901 - 234 Seiten
...to 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...innocent. If government were a matter of will upon any side,•yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation are matters of... | |
 | 1913 - 780 Seiten
...or 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." As public officials, we must be public leaders, if we are to be worthy of public trust. I charge you,... | |
 | Sir Sidney Low - 1904 - 346 Seiten
...representative," said Burke to the electors of Bristol, " owes you not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving, you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. I maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. I knew you chose... | |
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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... 
