| Louis John Jennings - 1868 - 364 halaman
...to adopt the most unscrupulous expedients to extend their sphere of dominion. According to Burke, " 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." It is not too much to affirm... | |
| English government - 1870 - 114 halaman
...What are " Politics " ? A. The science of government. Q. What is meant by a " Party " in politics ? A. A body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest upon some particular principle in which they all agree. This is Edmund Burke's "deBnition.... | |
| 1870 - 694 halaman
...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... | |
| 1870 - 612 halaman
...Tliovghts on the Cause of the Preient Di*contents,\ia& 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... | |
| William Harrison Ainsworth - 1872 - 508 halaman
...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 become thoroughly convinced... | |
| 1872 - 590 halaman
...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 joint endeavours, the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 596 halaman
...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... | |
| 1872 - 606 halaman
...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... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1872 - 618 halaman
...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... | |
| Forrest Fulton - 1875 - 340 halaman
...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...endeavours, the national interests upon some particular system upon which they are all agreed. When national are sacrificed to personal interests we get faction.... | |
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