 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1911 - 492 pages
...he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; which he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices...be all, the thing is innocent. If government were a mattes of will upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superior. But government and legislation... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...the abuse of 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." This is a sweeping declaration of the obligation of individual conviction, which is, or ought to be,... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - 1912 - 236 pages
...Edmund Burke to his constituents at Bristol.2 "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." Since Burke's day, all this has been changed. The modern House of Commons is no longer made up of free... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1912 - 196 pages
...you, to any man, 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 You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is... | |
 | Reginald Lucas - 1913 - 436 pages
...you, to any man, 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. . . . You choose a member indeed, but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but a... | |
 | 1913 - 1128 pages
...you, to any man, or to any set of men living. Your representative owes you not only his Industry but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, If he sacrifices it to your opinion. You choose a representative, Indeed, but when he is chosen he is not n member of Bristol, but a member... | |
 | Peter J. Burnell, Peter Calvert - 1999 - 308 pages
...his Bristol constituents in blunt terms in l774. 'owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays. instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'." It is Burke's version of representation, which gives the representative a signficant degree of autonomy,... | |
 | Ann K. Symons, Sally Gardner Reed - 1999 - 134 pages
...is that good men do nothing. Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — EDMUND BURKE hese two quotes from Burke — the first clearly attributed to him in Bartlett's but... | |
 | Peter J. Burnell, Peter Calvert - 1999 - 312 pages
...his Bristol constituents in blunt terms in l774. 'owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion'.e It is Burke's version of representation, which gives the representative a signficant degree... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 pages
...the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you,...upon any side, yours, without question, ought to be superiour. But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination;... | |
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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. 
