| Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1896 - 912 էջ
...purpose it is immaterial whether we agree with the somewhat Olympian definition given by Burke that a party is " a body of men united for promoting by their joint " endeavours the national interests upon some particular principle " on which they are agreed," or whether wo hold the view of... | |
| Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 էջ
...often be found that those who boast of placing country before party place themselves before either. " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their...endeavours the national interest upon some particular in which they are all agreed." That is Burke's definition, and it holds good to-day. Superfine- folk... | |
| Hendrik Pieter de Wilde - 1889 - 196 էջ
...najagen, maar zij zoeken het algemeen belang te bevorderen , zoodat men met Burke kan zeggen : „ a party is a body of men united for promoting , by their...interest, upon some particular principle in which they all are agreed." Terwijl facties alle met gelijksoortige middelen verschillende doeleinden najagen... | |
| 1889 - 1264 էջ
...underlie the theory of our unwritten constitution. MARLBOROUGH. THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY. Party is n 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 last... | |
| Hannis Taylor - 1889 - 672 էջ
...expressed it, party has come to mean "a body of men united, for promoting by their * joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." In that way each party has become so accustomed to united political action that when it wins control... | |
| Joseph Henry Crooker - 1889 - 306 էջ
...the aggrandizement of its members. His precise definition Young America may well lay to heart : " A party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they all agree." And respecting... | |
| 1892 - 638 էջ
...the gentlemen sitting on the Speaker's left hand be described with truth, in the words of Burke, as ' a body of men united ' for promoting, by their joint...particular principle in which they are ' all agreed ' ? Upon what ' particular principle ' are they all agreed ? Irish separatists, Welsh disestablishers,... | |
| Clemens Gottfried Koch - 1892 - 456 էջ
...election to office, the people had the negative in a parliamentary refusal to support. p. 263 f. 2) party is a body of men united for promoting by their...endeavours the national interest upon some particular princJple in which they are all agreed. p. 3353) cf. Morley, Burke 103. Lecky III. 203. 4) Robertson... | |
| 1892 - 836 էջ
...examination. " Party," says Burke, " 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." The particular principle apparently can be nothing but their joint opinion on the great question or... | |
| Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - 1892 - 380 էջ
...advance in political science, 120 years after his defence of Party government ? Burke defined Party to be "a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interests upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." While he approved of this basis... | |
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