The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 5511817Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 sayfa
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1887 - 574 sayfa
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency.... | |
| James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 856 sayfa
...King for a Parliament corrupt and tyrannical. 2 In a few years we find Burke exclaiming, " The value, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...the express image of the feelings of the nation." Still more emphatically another declared: "This House is not a representative of the people of Great... | |
| Johannes Gezinus Gratama - 1890 - 190 sayfa
...is van de natie. Waarheid bevatten de woorden van Burke : > the virtue , spirit and essence of the house of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." De burger moet dus de denkbeelden van zijnen afgevaardigde in spe kennen. Hoe zal hij , behalve zoo... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1905 - 1106 sayfa
...language of Bnrke, who said in a passage quoted by Mr. Green — " The value, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." That being settled doctrine, who could say that this House of Commons was the express image of the... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1894 - 624 sayfa
...even went so far as to assert that the virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consisted in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. When Lord Carmarthen founded a plea for withholding representation from America on the ground that... | |
| Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 486 sayfa
...sympathies of the people. It had nearly approached Mr. Burke's standard, according to whom, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consists...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation."* The best results of reform had been realized : the country was prosperous and contented.... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1895 - 370 sayfa
...even went so far as to assert that the virtue, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons consisted in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. When Lord Carmarthen founded a plea for withholding representation from America on the ground that... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1897 - 592 sayfa
...popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists...instituted to be a controul upon the people, as of late it ha« been taught, by a doctrine of the most pernicious tendency. It wa» designed as a controul for... | |
| John Richard Green, Julian Hawthorne - 1898 - 552 sayfa
...electors at all. "The value, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons," said Burke, in noble words, "consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." But how far such a House as that which now existed was from really representing English opinion we... | |
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