 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.  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Pagina 75door Edmund Burke - 1803Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pagina’s
...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. Is a politic act the worse ibr being a generous one ? Is... | |
 | 1776 - 632 pagina’s
...funk, I do not intend to be overwhelmed in that bog, though in fuch refpcftable company. The queiuoa with me is, not whether you have a right to render...tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reafon, and jußice, tells me, I ought to do. Is a politic aft the work for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion... | |
 | 1782 - 434 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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...reafon, and juftice, tell me, I ought .to do. Is a politic act the worfe for being a generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but that which is made from... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 502 pagina’s
...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 a lawyer tells me, I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do.' In many of Burke's speeches imagination occupies a great... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1803 - 452 pagina’s
...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....generous one ? Is no conceffion proper, but that which is rnade from your want of right to keep what you grant ? Or does it leflen the grace or dignity of relaxing... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1803 - 520 pagina’s
...trouble had prevailed. " I do not ffaid he) examine the abftract queftion of right; I do not inquire whether you have a right to render your people miferable;...; but what humanity, reafon, and juftice, tell me, that I ought to do. By your old mode of treating the colonies, i they they were well affe&ed to you,... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pagina’s
...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."—After a most elaborate speech, tending to shew the necessity... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pagina’s
...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. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ?... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pagina’s
...right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them hap-' py. It is not, what a lawyer tells me, I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me, I ought to do. Is a politick act the worse for being a generous one ?... | |
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