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" Party is a body of men united, for promoting by \ their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. "
Political Science: Or, The State Theoretically and Practically Considered - Page 540
by Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877
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The Wisdom of Burke: Extracts from His Speeches and Writings

Edmund Burke - 1886 - 276 pages
...Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.— Thoughts on Pres. Discontents. Kvery profession, not excepting the glorious one of a soldier or the...
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Party and Patriotism: Or, The Degeneracy of Politics

Sydney Edward Williams - Patriotism - 1886 - 168 pages
...says Burke in a well-known passage, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." And to the institution as thus denned little exception can be taken. But it is manifestly of the essence...
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The North American Review, Volume 144

North American review - 1887 - 668 pages
...statesman more competent than Edmund Burke to give a sound definition of a party. He declared it to be "a body of men united for promoting, by their joint endeavors, the national interests upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed." No one whose authority is worthy...
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The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: The making of the ...

Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1889 - 672 pages
...executive adminis- zatu>nsSar' tration. In that way, as Burke has expressed it, party has come to mean "a body of men united, for promoting by their * joint...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...
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An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament

Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute (1849-1914) - Political parties - 1892 - 380 pages
...system, if it was so intended, this renowned passage will not bear examination. " Party," says Burke, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." The particular principle apparently can be nothing but their joint opinion on the great question or...
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An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parliament

Sandford Fleming, Canadian Institute, Toronto - Canada - 1892 - 188 pages
...system, if it was so intended, this renowned passage will not bear examination. " Party," says Burke, "is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." The particular principle apparently can be nothing but their joint opinion on the great question or...
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The North American Review, Volume 154

North American review - 1892 - 836 pages
...system, if it was so intended, this renowned passage will not bear examination. " Party," says Burke, " is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." The particular principle apparently can be nothing but their joint opinion on the great question or...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 175

1892 - 638 pages
...truth, in the words of Burke, as ' a body of men united ' for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national ' interest upon some particular principle in which they are ' all agreed ' ? Upon what ' particular principle ' are they all agreed ? Irish separatists, Welsh disestablishers,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 179

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...apologist — is Burke. Party he defines as ' a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.' He argues that such ' connexions in politics ' are ' essentially necessary for the full performance...
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The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of ..., Volume 2

Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1895 - 634 pages
...to acknowledge many obligations, relates the most instructive incidents of general history. 1 "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." — Burke' i Present Discontents, Works, ii. 335. • " National interests " . . " would be sometimes...
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