 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 614 halaman
...right to representation as the landed interest. i ' The virtue, spirit, and essence,' he once said, ' of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.' 2 2 Tlumghti on thc Present Diseon- gloriousobjecloi'government'(8pecch i Part. lIM. xvi. 920, 921.... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1882 - 594 halaman
...once said, ' of a House of i Parl. ir,st. xvi. !)20, 921. CH. xi. METHOD OF POLITICAL REASONING. 209 •Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.' 1 His first and most important objection to the Radical school of politicians was the method of their... | |
 | 1885 - 590 halaman
...application. Proportional Representation is the embodiment and working out of Burke's famous maxim, "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...the express image of the feelings of the nation." It is the principle that in a true representative government the majority must always rule while at the... | |
 | Arthur Crump - 1885 - 336 halaman
...reflected " the express image of the feelings" of the aristocracy who placed them there. Burke said, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." Unhappily what he saw the House of Commons ought to be was unattainable in his day. It has... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 halaman
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...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 halaman
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government and in all forms. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
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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.... 
