| Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 páginas
...to be blown off their ground by the breath of every childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious Junto ; or that their...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... | |
| 1882 - 1114 páginas
...basis of reason or public morality it rests, and whether it can last. Burke says : — Party is a body united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in... | |
| James Lambert High, Edwin Burritt Smith - 1901 - 300 páginas
...wonderful paper entitled: "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents," written in 1770. He says: " 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 534 páginas
...Thoughts on the Present Discontents, written some time later as a manifesto of the Rockingham party : " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their...interest upon some particular principle in which they arc all agreed." The oldest man living could remember no government so weak in oratorical talents and... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - 1911 - 332 páginas
...as definite and at the same time as flexible an idea of the true party as we can anywhere find : ' A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." With this conception... | |
| Walter Thomas Mills - 1904 - 652 páginas
...concerning a political party, made more than a hundred yars ago, will still hold. He said: "A political 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." If this... | |
| George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - 1905 - 700 páginas
...to be blown off their ground by the breath of every childish talker. They were not afraid that they should be called an ambitious Junto ; or that their...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.1 For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics,... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - 1906 - 352 páginas
...as definite and at the same time as flexible an idea of the true party as we can anywhere find : ' A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some principle on which they are all agreed." With this conception... | |
| 1898 - 592 páginas
...must associate, else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." "Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interests upon some particular principles in which they are all agreed." "Men... | |
| Arthur Fisher Bentley - 1908 - 550 páginas
...themselves through them. One can hardly discuss parties without introducing Burke's definition that a party is "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed." Here... | |
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