 To this, sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the constitution of this country, and of the reason of state in every country, that there must be means of rewarding...  The Works of Jeremy Bentham - Page 287by Jeremy Bentham - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...office. I know too, that it will be demanded of me, how it comes, that since 1 admit these offices to be no better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of law had been satisfied, to retain them at all ? To this, Sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 466 pages
...office. I know too, that it will be demanded of me, how it comes, that since I admit these offices to be no better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of law had been satisfied, to retain them at all ? To this, sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...office. I 'know too, that it will be demanded of me, how it comes, that since I admit these offices to be no better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of law had been satisfied, to retain them at all ? To this, sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...office. I know too, that it will be demanded of roe, how it comes, that since I admit liiese offices to be no better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of law had been satisfied, to retain them at all ? To tbis, Sir, I answer that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the constitution... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...office. I know too, that it will be demanded of me, how it comes, that since I admit these offices to be no better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of law had been satisfied, to retain them at all ? To this, Sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 614 pages
...excellent Lord Chief Justice. out and employed in giving additional lustre to the jewel for \\liith we are indebted to their hands. ' • Burke, p. 62....had been satisfied," (meaning the principle, with ho-v little propriety soever it can be termed a principle of law, the principle of policy and humanity... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1817 - 610 pages
...the paragraph immediately preceding the one above quoted—" I know, too, that it will be demanded uf me how it comes, that since I admit these offices"...better than pensions, I chose, after the principle of'law had been satisfied," (meaning the principle, with ho'v little propriety soever it can he termed... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Finance, Public - 1830 - 548 pages
...which a diamond from this same excellent oration has, without acknowledgment, been picked out,—picked out and employed in giving additional lustre to the...legislature, to the prejudice of existing rights of property, ie without adequate compensation) " I chose to retain them at all." This being the question, now reader,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...office. I know too, that it will be demanded of me, how it comes, that since I admit these offices u, that so far as my principles are concerned, (principles, that I hope will only depa to retain them at all? To this, Sir, I answer, that conceiving it to be a fundamental part of the constitution... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1838 - 342 pages
...giving additional lustre to the jewel for which we are indebted to their hands.* • Burke, p. B2, in the paragraph immediately preceding the one above...legislature, to the prejudice of existing rights of property, ie without adequate compensation) " I chose to retain them at all" This being the question, now, reader,... | |
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