 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right dmund Burke lawyei tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a polilic... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...thi.'j^h щ such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to ren'¡т your people miserable; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy. It is not what a hwyer tells me I mny do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Again : "... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 458 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is...humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do." Notwithstanding this shyness of discussing a subject on the ground of abstract natural right, he acknowledges,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right d which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrours...war before known or heard of, were mercy to that new Again : " I do not know, that the colonies have, in any general way, or in any cool hour, gone much... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 592 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is...made from your want of right to keep what you grant 1 Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise of an odious claim, because you... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 614 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is...Is a politic act the worse for being a generous one 1 Is no concession proper, but that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant 1... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. " The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. la a politic act the worse for being a generous one ? Is no concession proper, but that which is made... | |
 | William Smyth - History, Modern - 1840 - 514 pages
...as a necessary evil. I am resolved, sir, you see, to have notbun: to do with the right of taxation. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. But the colonies will go further, it will be said. Alas ! alas ! what will quiet these panic fears... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...that bog, though in such respectable company. The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is...concession proper, but that which is made from your want of _ right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace or dignity of relaxing in the exercise... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...have a right to render your people miserable, but whether it is not yoar interest to make them hippy. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what...for being a generous one? Is no concession proper bnt that which is made from your want of right to keep what you grant? Or does it lessen the grace... | |
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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. 
