| Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...conscience. " Your representative owes you not his industry only," he bravely said, " but hii judgment; 4C, n E H c 9 m$ub PMN U4 l He declared Parliament was not a congress of amiuradora from hostile states with different ^wrests,... | |
| George Henry Jennings - GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT - 1881 - 564 pages
...which he is deeply answerable. Your representative .owes yon, not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead 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 - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...constituents, by saying, " 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." He remarked half-seriously of a personal relation with the city he represented, " Though I have the... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1882 - 594 pages
...representative government. ' Your representative owes you,' he said, ' 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 different and hostile interests. ... It is a... | |
| Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...or 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. " Jly worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...or 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. " My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all the thing is innocent.... | |
| Sydney Edward Williams - Patriotism - 1886 - 168 pages
...constituents. " Your representative," says Burke, " 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 different and hostile interests. . . It is a... | |
| Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1886 - 492 pages
...parliamentary representative : ' He owes you,' he said, ' not his industry only, but his judgment ; and he betrays instead 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...which 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. To deliver an opinion is the right of all men ; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion... | |
| Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1889 - 344 pages
...which 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. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent.... | |
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