 The question with me is not whether you have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.  Principles of Rhetoric ... - עמוד 130מאת Adams Sherman Hill - 1878תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 דפים
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...tell me I ought to do. Is a politic act the worse ibr being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right... | |
 | 1782 - 434 דפים
...comply with the American fpirit as neceflary, or, if you pleafe, to , fubmit to it as a neceflary evil. It is not what a lawyer * tells me I may do, but what humanity, reafori, and juftice tells me I ought to do. Of what avail are titles and arms, when the reafon of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1792 - 676 דפים
...funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy? It is not, what a lawyer tells... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 דפים
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to vender your people miserable; but whether it'is not your interest to make them happy? It is not what... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1801 - 368 דפים
...funk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miferable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - 520 דפים
...inquire whether you have a right to render your people miferable; but, whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, i they... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 דפים
...\ dq <la not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpectable company. The queftion with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miftrable ; but whether it is not your intereft to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 דפים
...measures by " which you now lose to those by which you formerly gained.""—The question with me, said he, is, not whether you have a right to render your people...what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity of departing from that system of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 560 דפים
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 דפים
...whole have sunk. I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right...reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made from... | |
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