 | Hanna F. Pitkin - Philosophy - 1967 - 340 pages
...accordingly, Burke frankly tells his Bristol constituency that, instead of obeying their instructions, he "conformed to the instructions of truth and nature," and "maintained your interest even against your opinions."43 Since interest is objective, and rationally discoverable, and since... | |
 | Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins - Political Science - 1989 - 220 pages
...accordance with Edmund Burke's view of the popular role of a legislator in the British Parliament: I am to look, indeed, to your opinions; but to such...hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day. I know that you chose me, in my place, along with others, to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - History - 1989 - 276 pages
...and nature, and maintained your interests against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. ... I am to look indeed to your opinions; but to such...opinions as you and I must have five years hence. ... I knew that you choose me ... to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock on the top of the edifice."... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political Science - 2000 - 540 pages
...takes his stand on a lofty ground with the plainest of words: "I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature,...hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day." This honest avowal would do nothing to allay the suspicion, already ventured in the hostile election... | |
 | 1900 - 478 pages
...Burke's time. Referring to the course he had held in regard to the troubles in Ireland, he says : " I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature,...to the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me with others to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock, on the top of the edifice, exalted... | |
 | Andrew J. Palm, Henry Randall Waite - Social sciences - 1895 - 712 pages
...instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest, against your opinions, with a constancy which became me. A representative worthy of you ought to...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... | |
 | Henry Holt - Periodicals - 1914 - 480 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... | |
 | 1905 - 1030 pages
...speech from the hustings in defence of bis action be exclaimed: "I did not obey your Instructions. No: I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maintained your Interest agalnat your opinions with a constancy that became me." He went on, in passages of wonderful eloquence... | |
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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... 
