 | 1870 - 694 pages
...Thoughts on the Came of the Present Discontentt,\iaB a defence, or rather an encomium, of party. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my... | |
 | 1872 - 588 pages
...inseparable from free government, and in another well-known passage he has thus defined party — " Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 598 pages
...take our departure from Burke's well-known definition. " Party," says the great philosophic statesman, "is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some principle in which they are all agreed." Party, in this sense of the word, is something every one can... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 618 pages
...scarcely call this, however, a good thing per se. What becomes then of Burke's definition of party as " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed ?" Is it of no application at all in our day? Certainly; as... | |
 | 1872 - 606 pages
...Constitution, the hasis of party. The basis of party is opinion, or according to Burke's definition, ' Party is a body ' of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the na' tional interest upon some particular principle in which they ' are all agreed.' A faction, on the... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - 1872 - 508 pages
...ATTACHMENTS. THE morality of party attachments deserves an attempt at definition. " A party," says Burke, " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interests upon some particular principles upon which they are agreed." But if a member of a party has... | |
 | Forrest Fulton - 1875 - 340 pages
...report to the house. The government of England is known as a government by what is called " party." Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interests upon some particular system upon which they are all agreed. When national are sacrificed... | |
 | Hendrik Du Marchie van Voorthuysen - 1876 - 196 pages
...door een algemeen bekend staatsman reeds zoo uitstekend is in het licht gesteld. »Party," zegt Burke, »is a body of men united , for promoting by their...joint endeavours the national interest, upon .some pa4'ticular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive,... | |
 | 1877 - 520 pages
...Cause of the Present Discontent, has given at once his definition and his defence of party : — " Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics or thinks them... | |
 | 1877 - 528 pages
...once his definition and his defence of party : — '.'Party is a body of men united, for promt ting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it, impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics or thinks... | |
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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. 
