 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....  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2841827Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1835
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. l I w express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1837
...distinction of a popular representative. This belongs equally to all parts of government, and in all forms. imes the angelick purity, power, and beneficence, I shall admit them to be ange express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 460 pages
...illustrating the doctrine it sets out with, that " their representatives are a control for the people, and not upon the people ; and that the virtue, spirit,...essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." (Ibid. 288.)* It may be superfluous to add, that one... | |
 | Brougham and Vaux - 1839 - 232 pages
...illustrating the doctrine it sets out with, that " their representatives are a control far the people, and not upon the people : and that the virtue, spirit,...essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." (Ib. 288.)* It may * " A vigilant and jealous eye over... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839
...Mr. Erskine, now Lord Erskine, " speaking of those changes in the English government, truly said, ' 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 controul upon the people,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 pages
...of the people out of doors. By this want of sympathy, they would cease to be a House of Commons. " 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,... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 642 pages
...Mr. Erskine, now Lord Erskine, " speaking of those changes in the English government, truly said, ' 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 controul upon the people,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 484 pages
...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 consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon th« Ticople,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1845
...illustrating the doctrine it sets out with, that " their representatives are a control for the people, and not upon the people ; and that the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consist in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." (Ibid. 288.)* It may be superfluous... | |
 | 1845
...of the people out of doors. By this want of sympathy, they would cease to be a House of Commons. " 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,... | |
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