...possibly be productive of any consequence.' . . . 'Party,' he continues, 'is a body of men united \ fj-* for promoting by their joint endeavours the national...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks...

...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."...

...the 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...

...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...

...interpreted into a scuffle for places. "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. For my part I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks them...

...Discontents," written in 1770. He says: " 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. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks...

...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...

...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...particular principle in which they are all agreed. For my part, I find it impossible to conceive, that any one believes in his own politics, or thinks...

...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...

...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...