... if we do not permit, our members to act upon a very enlarged view of things ; we shall at length infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas,... Miscellanies, Political and Literary - Página 310por Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 315 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edith M. Phelps - 1913 - 286 páginas
...a very enlarged view of things," and not to look merely to "the flash of the day," he declared:— "When the popular member is narrowed in his Ideas,...the Crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen." According to Burke's view the constant response to the popular mood would at least banish statesmen... | |
| Stephen H. Browne - 1993 - 172 páginas
...infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas and...the crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen." The first section of the speech thus ends where it started, anchored in principle to the autonomy of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 2000 - 540 páginas
...infallibly degrade our national representation into a confused and scuffling bustle of local agency. When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas,...crown will be the sole nursery of statesmen. Among the frolicks of the court, it may at length take that of attending to its business. Then the monopoly of... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1793 - 668 páginas
...infallibly degrade bur national reprefentation into a confufed and fcuffling buftle of local agency. When the popular member is narrowed in his ideas, and rendered timid in his proceedings, the fervice of the crown will be the fole nurfery of ftatefmen. Among the frolics of the court, it may... | |
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