 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
 | 1885 - 590 pages
...application. Proportional Representation is the embodiment and working out of Burke's famous maxim, "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." It is the principle that in a true representative government... | |
 | Arthur Crump - 1885 - 336 pages
...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 consists in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." Unhappily what he saw the House of Commons ought to be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 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 control upon the people,... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1890 - 854 pages
...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 in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." Still more emphatically another declared: "This House... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1895 - 486 pages
...interests and sympathies of the people. It had nearly approached Mr. Burke's standard, according to whom, " The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consists in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation."* The best results of reform had been realized : the country... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 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 control upon the people,... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...distinguishable. War is a situation which sets in its full light the value of the hearts of a people. The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint... | |
 | University of Sydney - 1906 - 738 pages
...Indian Mutiny. HISTORY I. HONOURS. Tou are rfconunen<tf4 lo answer SBVKN questions, and no more. 1. "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." By what arguments does Burke support this opinion ?'... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1910 - 404 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 control upon the people.)... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - 1912 - 234 pages
...types were not altogether unrepresented in the House : an approximation was made to the ideal of Burke that "the virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons, consists in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation."1 Each pair of members then represented one of the complex... | |
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