 | 1881 - 832 pages
...PARTY POLITICS. T)ARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by I their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and if this definition be correct — and it has never that we are aware of been impugned — it... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1881 - 1422 pages
...PARTY POLITICS. T)ARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by I their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and if this definition be correct — and it has never that we are aware of been impugned — it... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 594 pages
...politicians, and to revive a high sense of party discipline. ' Party,' he said in a very striking passage, ' is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...the national interest upon some particular principle i Bvrhe's Corrctpondenee, i. 251. 296-307, 318-321. Albemarle's Life See on the other side Chatham... | |
 | Literature - 1883 - 948 pages
...the two subjects. Party jealousy declares that they should be tied together. " Party," said Burke, " is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed." That definition excludes the hope of working for the national interest... | |
 | Literature - 1884 - 946 pages
...outset that our defiaition of Party should be quite free from ambiguity. Mr. Burke describes Party as " a body of men united for promoting, by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle." If the actual manifestations of Party life strictly corresponded with this account of it, there would... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...division of public men. From such doctrine Burke dissented. Party was a necessity. " Party," said Burke, " is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some paricular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1884 - 1254 pages
...government. Burke's definition, "Party is a body of men united in promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed," was accurately applicable to the small and coherent body of electors which ho represented. While remaining... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...company if he does not agree with them at least nine times in ten.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Kvery profession, not excepting the glorious one of a soldier or the... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - Patriotism - 1886 - 168 pages
...take a clearer and juster view of its object and limits. " Party," says Burke in a well-known passage, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." And to the institution as thus denned little exception can be taken. But it is manifestly of the essence... | |
 | 1886 - 608 pages
...Peloponnesian. 19. The passage from Burke is rightly given by thirty-four members, and is as follows : ' Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon Mme particular principle in which they are all agreed ' (Prêtent Discontents'). Moonraker is severe... | |
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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. 
