 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 - עמוד 2821827תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1885
...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 - 291 דפים
...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 - 261 דפים
...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 - 420 דפים
...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
...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
...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 - 199 דפים
...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
...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 ?'... | |
 | Moorhouse I. X. Millar - 1922 - 331 דפים
...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 consists in its being the express image of the feelings of tta nation. It was not instituted to be a control upon the people,... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - 1923 - 729 דפים
...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 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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