 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - 354 pages
...Ibid., p. 66. Burke in his ' ' Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, " 1770, had said: "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.... | |
 | Moorhouse F. X. Millar, Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - 358 pages
...T Ibid., p. 66. Burke in his ' ' Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Piscontents," 1770, had said: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...in its being the express image of the feelings of tta nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people, as of late it has been taught by... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - 1923 - 754 pages
...acceptable to the people, or while factions predominated in the Court in which the nation had no confidence. "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.... | |
 | Herman Finer - 1924 - 22 pages
...They long ago learnt off by heart Burke's famous phrase : " The virtue, the spirit, the essence of the House of Commons, consists in its being the express image of the nation." Burke's words are precious, and few would quarrel with those who recognise the importance... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1926 - 458 pages
...right of any, be they kings, nobles, or freeholders. "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." So he declared in that noble pamphlet, Thoughts on the present Discontents (1770). He observed that... | |
 | 1924 - 428 pages
...in the body of the people. It is the same principle which Burke eloquently expressed when he said: "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons...in its being the express image of the feelings of a nation." Manifestly, the first step in securing such a principle is to abolish the single-membered... | |
 | Hanna F. Pitkin - 1967 - 340 pages
...of Commons shall be made to bear some stamp of the actual disposition of the people at large. . . . The virtue, spirit and essence of a House of Commons...its being the express image of the feelings of the nation.71 It is always "sentiment" or popular "feelings" that are to be reproduced or reflected accurately... | |
 | Terence Ball, James Farr, Russell L. Hanson - 1989 - 384 pages
...excluded from representation. "The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons," Burke says, "consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation." Its task is not so much to govern as to control the government on behalf of the people. "It was not... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 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 91 of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a controul upon the people, as of late... | |
 | James Conniff - 1994 - 384 pages
...fancy and Caprice." 68 In addition, the Commons ought, in Burke's opinion, to be close to the people: "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.... | |
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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.... 
