 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...decide; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1795 - 680 pages
...decide; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftan; from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a Reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1798 - 330 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1801 - 368 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men j that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 452 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpe&able opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 454 pages
...decide ; and where thofe who form the conclufion are perhaps three hundred miles diftant from thofe who hear the arguments ? To deliver an opinion, is the right of all men ; that of conftituents is a weighty and refpectable opinion, which a reprefentative ought always to rejoice to... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...determination 150 precedes the discussion ; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred...which a representative ought always to rejoice to bear ; and which he ought always most seriously to consider. But authoritative instructions ; mandates... | |
 | England - 1833 - 1006 pages
...determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide ; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? *»»»»» Authoritative instructions, mandates, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1823 - 446 pages
...determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide ? and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the arguments? Parliament" said Mr. BURKE, " is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests;... | |
 | John Sanderson - United States - 1823 - 308 pages
...determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who form the conclusion are perhaps three hundred miles distant from those who hear the argument? To deliver an opinion is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respec*... | |
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But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide; and where those who... 
