 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - Political science - 1900 - 552 pages
...this office. To his Bristol constituents he boldly declared: " I did not obey your instructions: No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature...to your opinions; but to such opinions as you and I musl have five years hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me, in... | |
 | Stanley Peerman Hutton - Bristol (England) - 1907 - 532 pages
...instructions. No, I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interests against your opinions with a constancy that became...worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. ... I know that you chose me, along with others, to be a pillar of the State, and not a weathercock on the... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 360 pages
...instructions : No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interests against your opinions with a constancy that became...and I must have five years hence. I was not to look at the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me in my place, along with others, to be a pillar of... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1915 - 266 pages
...attempt towards pleasing everybody discovers a temper always flashy, and often false and insincere.... I am to look, indeed, to your opinions; but to such...opinions as you and I must have five years hence." They should be philosophers like John Stuart Mill who, facing the electors of Westminster and being... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1915 - 272 pages
...attempt towards pleasing everybody discovers a temper always flashy, and often false and insincere. . . . I am to look, indeed, to your opinions; but to such...opinions as you and I must have five years hence." They should be philosophers like John Stuart Mill who, facing the electors of Westminster and being... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1915 - 266 pages
...attempt towards pleasing everybody discovers a temper always flashy, and often false and insincere. . . . I am to look, indeed, to your opinions; but to such...opinions as you and I must have five years hence." They should be philosophers like John Stuart Mill who, facing the electors of Westminster and being... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - United States - 1919 - 680 pages
...had given in the House of Commons. "I maintained your interests against your opinions," he declared. "A representative worthy of you ought to be a person...opinions as you and I must have five years hence. I am not to look to the flash of the day." The idea that a representative should reflect the sentiment... | |
 | William Bennett Munro, Charles Eugene Ozanne - Social sciences - 1922 - 776 pages
...maintained your interests against your opinions," he said to the voters of Bristol in defending his actions. "A representative worthy of you ought to be a person...opinions as you and I must have five years hence. I am not to look to the flash of the day." Public officials in the United States do not usually talk... | |
 | Law - 1919 - 492 pages
...obey was one of the offenses charged against him, he said: "I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature,...against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. I knew that you chose me, in my place, along with others, to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1905 - 1050 pages
...from the hustings in defence of his action he exclaimed : ' I did not obey your instructions. No : I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature,...against your opinions with a constancy that became me.' He went on, in passages of wonderful eloquence and rare nobility, to declare that he did not stand... | |
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I did not obey your instructions: No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest, against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. I am to... 
