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" Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest,... "
Speeches on the American War: And Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol - Page 83
by Edmund Burke - 1891 - 242 pages
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 20

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1842 - 614 pages
...from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of the constitution. Parliament, he said, was a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest — that of the whole ; where not local or party purposes or prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 208 pages
...states, and with hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent against other agents; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, and that of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member...
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Practical Elocution: Containing Illustrations of the Principles of Reading ...

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...good resulting from the general reason of the whole. an interest, or should form a hasty opinion, evidently opposite to the real good of the rest of the...
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A memoir of the Union, and the agitations for its repeal. By an Irish ...

William Bullen (solicitor.) - 1843 - 152 pages
...ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent and an advocate against other agents and advocates ; but...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of , he is a member of parliament."...
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Lives of illustrious ... Irishmen, ed. by J. Wills, Volume 5, Part 2

Irishman - 1844 - 254 pages
...ambassadors from different states, and with hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent and advocate against other agents and advocates;...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of...
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The Wisdom and Genius of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Illustrated in a ...

Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member, indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of...
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Practical Elocution

Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates;...good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. 7. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he...
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Practical Speaking: As Taught in Yale College

Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...ambassadors, / from different - and hostile - interests, / which interests each must maintain, / as an agent - and advocate, / against other agents and...one nation, \ with one interest, \ that of the whole ; -.. / not - local prejudices, ought to guide, \ but the general good, \ resulting from the general...
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Crosby's Parliamentary Record of Elections in Great Britain and ..., Volume 1

George Crosby - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1847 - 424 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests, which interests each must maintain as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes,...
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The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 3

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 558 pages
...congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates...resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of...
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