 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 pages
...in politics, a body of men united under different leaders for promoting, by their joint endeavors, the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. The origin of party may be traced to that law of the human mind which is founded in our natural desire... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1857 - 728 pages
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their...particular principle in which they are all agreed. 1'or my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks... | |
 | John Craig (F.G.S.) - 1859 - 1116 pages
...distinct from or opposed to another. In Politics, a body of men united under one or diffi-rent leaders, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest upon some particular prinri le or principles in which they are agreed. In Military affairs, a small detachment or body of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...placemen, he interpreted into a scuffle for traces. Party is a xxly of men united, for promoting hy their joint endeavours the national interest, upon...which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossihle to conceive, that any one. helieves in his own polities, or thinks them to he of any weight,... | |
 | 1863 - 1076 pages
...than Addison, and likewise the chief literary ornament of the same party, expressed himself thus : — Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their...principle in which they are all agreed. For my part 1 find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks them to be of... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1863 - 608 pages
...desire to acknowledge many obligations, relates the most instructive incidents of general history. 2 "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." —... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - 1864 - 428 pages
...himself, his language was calculated to make many people suppose that he did mean it. " Party," said he, " is a body of men "united for promoting by their joint...any one believes in his own politics or thinks them of " any weight who refuses to adopt the means of having them " reduced into practice. It is the business... | |
 | Thomas Edward Kebbel - 1864 - 432 pages
...than Addison, and likewise the chief literary ornament of the same party, expressed himself thus : Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endcu* A Tory's Account of Toryism, Whiggism, and Radicalism. De Quincey. Vol. xv. The Political Parties... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 572 pages
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. 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... | |
 | 1883 - 934 pages
...the two subjects. Party jealousy declares that they should be tied together. " Party," said Burke, " is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed." That definition excludes the hope of working for the national interest... | |
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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. 
