 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1804 - 592 pages
...nature ? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the house of common-s stretches not its power, because...assisted by the honest and disinterested part of the house-i it will always command the resolutions of the whole^ so far, at least, as to preserve the ancient... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1825 - 562 pages
...nature? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the house of commons stretches not its power, because...of the whole, so far, at least, as to preserve the aticient constitution from danger. We may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please ;... | |
 | David Hume - Natural theology - 1842 - 570 pages
...nature ? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the house of commons stretches not its power, because...by the honest and disinterested part of the house, i it will always command the resolutions of the whole, so far, at least, as to preserve the ancient... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1854 - 590 pages
...nature ? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the House of Commons stretches not its power, because...to preserve the ancient constitution from danger. AVe may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please ; we TnaycQ-ll it Iry^the invidious... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...nature ? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the House of Commons stretches not its power, because...the interest of the majority of its members."* The question, however, still recurs, how does all this happen, and to what causes is it owing that the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...nature ? I answer, that the interest of the body is here restrained by that of the individuals, and that the House of Commons stretches not its power, because...the interest of the majority of its members."* The question, however, still recurs, how does all this happen, and to what causes is it owing that the... | |
 | Edward Adolphus Seymour Duke of Somerset - Democracy - 1880 - 208 pages
...assisted by the honest and disinterested part of the House, command the resolutions of the whole body, so far at least as to preserve the ancient Constitution from danger." "We may," Hume observes, "call this by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence, but some degree... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 670 pages
...House of Commons stretches not its power because such a usurpation would be contrary to the interests of the majority of its members. The Crown has so many...will always command the resolutions of the whole. . . . We may call this influence by the invidious appellations of corruption and dependence ; but some... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1889 - 530 pages
...restrained by that of the individuals, and that the house of commons stretches not its power, because i such an usurpation would be contrary to the interest...of the whole so far, at least, as to preserve the antient constitution from danger. We may, therefore, give to this influence what name we please; we... | |
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The crown has so many offices at its disposal, that, when assisted by the honest and disinterested part of the house, it will always command the resolutions of the whole so far, at least, as to preserve the antient constitution from danger. We may... 
