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" Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. "
Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 15
by John Timbs - 1829
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 pages
...conscience, he ought not to .sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent....
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Erskine May - 1868 - 572 pages
...thousand petitions are with the signatures, relating to annually printed in extcnso ; and every subject, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. . . Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what...
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The orator, a treasury of English eloquence

Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you — to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure — no, nor from the...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent....
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Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, — no, nor from the...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. My worthy colleague says, his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is innocent....
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Analytical Sixth Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the General ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of living men. These he does not derive from your pleasures; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. 3. My worthy colleague says his will ought to be subservient to yours. If that be all, the thing is...
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English Composition and Rhetoric: A Manual

Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pages
...conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law...representative owes you, not his industry only, but Jiw judgment; and he Defrays, instead of serving you, if Tie sacrifices it to your opinion." This may...
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Analytical Fifth-[sixth] Reader: Containing an Introductory Article on the ...

Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of living men. These he does not derive from your pleasures ; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are...deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not Viis industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to...
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Edmund Burke: A Historical Study

John Morley - 1867 - 340 pages
...interest to his own. His judgment, on the contrary, he ought never under any circumstances to sacrifice. "Your representative owes you not his industry only,...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." 2 On Burke's theory, the jeople, as a rule, were no more concerned to interfere with Parliament than...
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Edmund Burke: A Historical Study

John Morley - 1867 - 338 pages
...circumstances to sacrifice. " Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment ; ahd he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." 2 On Burke's theory, the people, as a rule, were no more concerned to interfere with Parliament than...
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The Irish ecclesiastical record, Volume 9

Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 pages
...or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure ; no, nor from the law and constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for...serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." In these terms of great polrtical wisdom he emancipated himself from the narrow selfish views sought...
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