| William Samuel Lilly - Political science - 1899 - 396 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... | |
| Goldwin Smith - Great Britain - 1899 - 514 pages
...secured. Burke's definition of party 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," though panegyrical, might then have had place. Deliverance from the Stuarts and their tyranny was a... | |
| Moisei Ostrogorski - Great Britain - 1902 - 852 pages
...Burke's well-known formula, a 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." However elastic may be this definition given by the great champion of the party system, it assigns... | |
| Iowa - 1903 - 726 pages
...view is perhaps best stated by Edmund Burke, the great defender of party action. He defined party as "a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...national interest, upon some particular principle upon which they are all agreed." Professor Jesse Macy, also, gives expression to the same conception... | |
| James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1911 - 332 pages
...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 of party, true independence can be made... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 136 pages
...which they always will do to obtain their base purposes, the good men must associate. Party, he said, is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.2 Burke took such an active part in the opposition that he was supposed to be the author of... | |
| T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...of the feelings of the nation. 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. Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his... | |
| College Entrance Examination Board - Education - 1905 - 76 pages
...States? 7 Parties Burke defines Party 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". a Name the political parties in England in 1689 and show how far they conformed to Burke's definition.... | |
| George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - Debates and debating - 1905 - 696 pages
...interpreted into a scuffle for places. 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.1 For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics,... | |
| William Babcock Weeden - Indiana - 1906 - 430 pages
...gradually acquired control of political action in the early nineteenth century. Burke defined party to be " a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed." Perhaps this dictum was never more fully manifested than in the political... | |
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