 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1898 - 204 pages
...POLITICAL PARTIES " A political party 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. Party division, whether in the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government."... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1899 - 514 pages
...discipline of party till the object of the combination was secured. Burke's definition of party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed," though panegyrical, might then have had place. Deliverance from the Stuarts and their tyranny was a... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1899 - 396 pages
...the first apologist—certainly the first considerable apologist—is Burke. "Party" he defines as " a body of men united for promoting, by their joint...particular principle in which they are all agreed." He argues that such " connexions in politics " are " essentially necessary for the full performance... | |
 | 1882 - 1114 pages
...basis of reason or public morality it rests, and whether it can last. Burke says : — Party is a body united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in... | |
 | Moisei Ostrogorski - 1902 - 844 pages
...corruption, and must be restored to its proper function. According to Burke's well-known formula, a party is "a body of men united for promoting, by their joint...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 534 pages
...on the Present Discontents, written some time later as a manifesto of the Rockingham party : " Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...interest upon some particular principle in which they arc all agreed." The oldest man living could remember no government so weak in oratorical talents and... | |
 | Walter Thomas Mills - 1904 - 652 pages
...hold. He said: "A political party 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." If this is correct, and if the above observations are substantially true, it is easily seen that the... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 pages
...of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. Party is a body of men united for promoting by their joint...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... | |
 | George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - 1905 - 700 pages
...resolution to stand or fall together should, by placemen, be interpreted into a scuffle for places. Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint...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,... | |
 | College Entrance Examination Board - 1905 - 76 pages
...the quarrel between England and Napoleon involve the United States? 7 Parties Burke defines Party as "a body of men united for promoting by their joint...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.... | |
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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. 
