 | 1881 - 830 pages
...refusing, gained a martyr's crown In cruel death, and is Saint Christopher ! PARTY POLITICS. PARTY, says Burke, ' is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavour the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed ; ' and... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...every 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...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 joint...national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Kvery profession, not excepting 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...the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." And to the institution as thus denned little exception can be taken.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1896 - 912 pages
...it is immaterial whether we agree with the somewhat Olympian definition given by Burke that a party is " a body of men united for promoting by their joint " endeavours the national interests upon some particular principle " on which they are agreed," or whether wo hold the view of... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - Great Britain - 1888 - 232 pages
...found that those who boast of placing country before party place themselves before either. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...endeavours the national interest upon some particular in which they are all agreed." That is Burke's definition, and it holds good to-day. Superfine- folk... | |
 | Hendrik Pieter de Wilde - 1889 - 196 pages
...najagen, maar zij zoeken het algemeen belang te bevorderen , zoodat men met Burke kan zeggen : „ a party is a body of men united for promoting , by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle in which they all are agreed." Terwijl facties alle met gelijksoortige middelen verschillende doeleinden... | |
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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. 
