 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...such instructions. Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to havei great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect ; their business, unremitted attention. It... | |
 | Daniel Parker Coke - Elections - 1803 - 462 pages
...Electors of NOTTINGHAM. CKHTAIT? LT, gentleman, it ought to be the happiand glory of a Representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion, high respect; their otrsiness, uuremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | 1916 - 476 pages
...hideous nightmare. But even Burke recognised the general responsibility of a member of Parliament to his constituents : ' Their wishes ' ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion, high ' respect ; their business, unremitted attention.' And even while claiming that a member... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...such instructions. " Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect , their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Europe - 1812 - 500 pages
...unanswerable language. " .Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 504 pages
...litigation. "Certainly, gentlemen," says he, "it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him , their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention ; it iť his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...CONSTITUENTS TO THEIR MEMBERS. CERTAINLY, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative, to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...wishes ought to have great weight with him ; their opinion high respect ; their business unretnkted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1897 - 808 pages
...own election to Parliament. Burke said : "It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence,...with him, their opinions high respect, their business unremltted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasure, his satisfactions to theirs,... | |
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Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. 
