 ... parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member...  Party and Patriotism: Or, The Degeneracy of Politics - Page 36by Sydney Edward Williams - 1886 - 149 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If tho local constituent should have an interest or should form ait hasty... | |
 | Daniel Parker Coke - Elections - 1803 - 462 pages
...local prejudicesought to guide but the generalgood, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a Member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of BRISTOL, but he is a member of Parliament. It' the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You chuse a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he " is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should \ • . 1 have have an interest, or... | |
 | Europe - 1812 - 500 pages
...local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form a hasty... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 518 pages
...prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good resulting from the general reason of the whole : — you choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest, or should form an hasty... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 718 pages
...local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of Parliament. If the local constituent should have an interest,... | |
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