...Thoughts on the Came of the Present Discontentt,\iaB a defence, or rather an encomium, of party. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my...

...take our departure from Burke's well-known definition. " Party," says the great philosophic statesman, "is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some principle in which they are all agreed." Party, in this sense of the word, is something every one can...

...scarcely call this, however, a good thing per se. What becomes then of Burke's definition of party as " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed ?" Is it of no application at all in our day? Certainly; as...

...Constitution, the hasis of party. The basis of party is opinion, or according to Burke's definition, ' Party is a body ' of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the na' tional interest upon some particular principle in which they ' are all agreed.' A faction, on the...

...ATTACHMENTS. THE morality of party attachments deserves an attempt at definition. " A party," says Burke, " a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interests upon some particular principles upon which they are agreed." But if a member of a party has...

...report to the house. The government of England is known as a government by what is called " party." Party is a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interests upon some particular system upon which they are all agreed. When national are sacrificed...

...door een algemeen bekend staatsman reeds zoo uitstekend is in het licht gesteld. »Party," zegt Burke, »is a body of men united , for promoting by their...joint endeavours the national interest, upon .some pa4'ticular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive,...

...underlie the theory of our unwritten constitution. MARLBOROUGH. THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Party is & body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some principle in which they are all agreed. — Burke. THE discussion which has been raised during the...

...the Cause of the Present Discontent," has given at once his definition and his defense of party : " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle in- which they arc? nil agreed. For...

...politicians, and to revive a high sense of party discipline. ' Party,' he said in a very striking passage, ' is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...the national interest upon some particular principle i Bvrhe's Corrctpondenee, i. 251. 296-307, 318-321. Albemarle's Life See on the other side Chatham...