 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 pagini
...trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative .owes yon, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays...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 pagini
...occasion, expressed the proper relation between a representative and his constituents, by saying, " Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...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 - 594 pagini
...misconception of the nature of representative government. ' Your representative owes you,' he said, ' not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays...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... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pagini
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pagini
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. " My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all the thing is innocent.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pagini
...the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...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... | |
 | Sydney Edward Williams - 1886 - 168 pagini
...own judgment, imperative instructions from his constituents. " Your representative," says Burke, " owes you not his industry only, but his judgment,...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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1886 - 492 pagini
...explained the constitutional position of a parliamentary representative : ' He owes you,' he said, ' not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays...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... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1889 - 344 pagini
...and constitution. They are a trust from Providence for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 pagini
...enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you, not his industry only,...judgment ; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifice it to your opinion. ... If government were a matter of will upon any side, yours, without... | |
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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. 
